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This article shows that in Quevedo’s metaphors women are portrayed in a twofold, contradictory way, namely, as something both idealised and despicable. These two groups of metaphors, that is, idealising metaphors and those in which women are degraded because of their physical appearance, attitude and behaviour, are analysed in detail. Finally, it is claimed that this double vision can be accounted for by a conception of love as spiritual attraction and desire. Thus, Quevedo accepts and contradicts, at the same time, the Neo-Platonist ideal that had pervaded poetry since the Renaissance period.

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