Practice question · Multiple choice
The Golden Age split between culteranismo and conceptismo divided poets over difficulty. If both styles deliberately resist immediate understanding, where does their actual divergence lie?
Hints
- Where does Góngora place his obstacles compared to where Quevedo places his?
- Does the dispute concern the sonnet's external architecture or its internal method of thought?
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A. In whether difficulty resides in poetic surface or in mental wit
Why
Góngora complicates the linguistic surface through Latinate syntax and myth, whereas Quevedo compresses wit and argument into dense concepts; neither abandons the Italian fourteen-line structure nor seeks plain vocabulary.
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