Burlas poéticas en el Quijote = Poetic Mockeries in the Quixote

Cervantes has traditionally been considered as a bad poet. Indeed, in the Quixote there are some poems which can be judged as dissonant and forced. However, being inserted compositions, they are not exactly poems by Cervantes, but by their fictional authors. Therefore, with the mockery as a frame, the purpose of this article is to analyse this kind of compositions, in order to show that they are deliberately ridiculous poems, which have two main purposes in their narrative contexts: to ridicule the character to whom they are dedicated, when the fictional author has burlesque intentions, or to ridicule the fictional author, characterized as a bad poet, when, with the best intentions to write serious poems, he can only write ridiculous compositions.