A review of the concept of literature as a special kind of language that take advantage of full potential signs and messages with a high degree of hermeticism may be result. Cases of encrypted codes are analyzed in poems that provides both accurate and visionary depiction. The key words to interpret these texts are contained in the intraliterary context and, in certain cases, they are identified in the references of writing to other expressive systems, such as the pictorial one. This tenet applies to the poems of “The Eight Names of Picasso” by Rafael Alberti, whose meaning is disclosed thanks to the reconstruction of Picasso's paintings quoted in the verses.