Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik (Aug 2021)

Was wäre möglich, wenn die Poesie noch möglich wäre? Und was hätte die Natur damit zu tun? Zeitgemäße Annäherungen an Eugenio Montale

  • Jan Söffner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.25353/ubtr-izfk-0d9b-e8bf
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4
pp. 11 – 29

Abstract

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This essay puts forth a definition of poetry rooted in experience. In following Eugenio Montale, it analyzes two of his poems – “I limoni” and “Notizie dall’Amiata” – to show how the poet, rather than constructing discrete poetic worlds, aims at a poetry revealing the world and nature to a concrete reader, unforeseeable for the poet. Poetry thus aims at imbuing this reader’s life with an ephemeral poetic form, rather than evoking its own self-sufficient aesthetics. In doing so, chance and flaws in the social and cultural construction of reality act as co-authors of his “poesia”.

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