The article proposes the analysis of the poems “Suicidio” and “El destino” that are part of Química del espíritu (1923) by the peruvian poet Alberto Hidalgo. The hypothesis that is planned is the existence of links between the complexity of Berman's modern human being and the visual ideas of death as an exit space to such a modern state. For this purpose, we use the theory of General Textual Rhetoric, the orientational metaphor of Lakoff and Johnson's linguistic cognitive theory and the typography of Suarez's visual poetry to differentiate the indicated poems. In this way, both poems take on a meaning where the social context affects the psychology of the subject in order to understand their vision of the world.