We stay in a particular second for poetry. With nice creators (and, above all, nice creators) and with very competent readers (additionally, principally, feminine readers). The female accent (additionally current in that “anima” archetype that in response to Jung should be in the masculine, to keep away from its excessiveness) can be one of the nice impulses for the new poetry that’s starting to be outlined.
Past names and particular texts, we need to mirror on the significance (additionally therapeutic) of poetry in the 21st century, at a crossroads in which we’d like the phrase greater than ever. A phrase that tends in the direction of horizons of reality, goodness and wonder. Might it resonate and rework us.
Keys: nature, origins and evolution
Poiesis (ποίησις, pronounced “poíesis”) means in Greek “creation” or “manufacturing”, initially with a normal sense (“to supply one thing that didn’t exist earlier than”). Over time it was utilized particularly to aesthetic verbal creation (“poetry” in the strict sense), particularly in verse, but additionally in prose, as evidenced by Emilio Lledó in his e-book The idea “Poíesis” in Greek philosophy.
That is how Juan Ramón Jiménez understood it, who thought-about poetic creation as the highest exponent of the human, and who set the motto “Love and poetry day-after-day”. Removed from being an excessively beautiful expression (or “corny”), the Juanramonian crucial locations the horizon of the which means of life, exactly, in creativity and in loving projection.
Now we might say, following the social thinker Hartmut Rosa that, in impact, they’re the two strongest methods of resonance, of a significant relationship with the world, that enables us to stay with motivation, with depth, with openness in {our relationships}, which make a reworking appropriation of that have that “touches” us and “tells” us one thing.
Poets are harmful
Poetry, as a human and cultural product that it’s, has been altering with the occasions, though it is not going to be potential to seek out any human group at any time that doesn’t have its personal poetic custom, initially oral and – since the discovery of writing – written . To the annoyance of Plato, who had a peculiar and equivocal relationship with poetry: the most “poetic” of philosophers believed that, after receiving and anointing them, poets needs to be expelled from the preferrred Republic.
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Poets are certainly harmful: they attempt to say with phrases what can’t be mentioned with phrases. And with it they provoke ideas and emotions that it’s not potential to expertise exterior the poetic expertise (that re-creation that requires an lively and complete studying).
Exploring the limits
Poetry has undergone, inside the framework of the Euro-Western challenge of Modernity, very profound transformations which have taken it to its personal limits of which means and at the identical time have hybridized it with different inventive expressions (plastic, musical, and so on.). The historic avant-gardes and their numerous actions mark that “deconstructive” second of the poetic that reaches its climax in surrealism.
Though Theodor Adorno mentioned that “writing poetry after Auschwitz is an act of barbarism”, the human want for poetic creativity has meant that, after the barbarity of Nazism, extra poetry has been written than in the total earlier historical past of humanity. Maybe because of this, in a time as important as these preliminary a long time of the 21st century, we really feel extra want than ever for poetic expertise.
Poetry in the 21st century
Poetry has crossed the threshold of the third millennium more healthy than ever. Though it stays a minority expertise, there are in the present day extra poets and extra readers (particularly readers) of poetry than at some other time of poetic plenitude (as in the Golden Age or the Silver Age of the first third 20th century). Even the pandemic has confirmed and strengthened this pattern (see right here): “Lately, as unquestionable developments the illustrated e-book or e-book album, and likewise comics and poetry have been consolidated” (increase right here).
One of the singularities of the poetic creation of the current is that we will discover collectively all the aesthetic prospects of earlier centuries: there are new classicisms and neo-baroque poetry (conceptist or cultist), symbolic and mystical poetry and soiled realism, hermeticism and compromised poetry, if Properly, the dominant second continues to be marked by the so-called “poetry of expertise”, already far more open and fewer “patrimonialized”.
M. Ema Llorente marks as the foremost present currents “the tendency in the direction of the improbable, the progressive lower and discount –each bodily and psychological– of the poetic self, and an inclination in the direction of reflection and the manifestation of existential considerations, which ends up in a sure agonism ”.
Curiously, we might additionally point out the reverse choices: a brand new realism that nearly excludes creativeness and fantasy, an irruption – typically extreme – of the poetic self in the texts and a trivial expression of existence, oblivious to the dynamic and agonizing dimension of life .
A discourse of the rational and the emotional
Though our time is one of polarizations and antagonisms, a posh and open look at the present dynamics of poetic creation should be inclusive of non-exclusive choices (taking care of the stage of expression and content material, for instance; the implication of what’s rational and emotional). He should even take benefit of that battlefield that’s at all times the phrase to harmonize opposites or to hunt the unique third. I actually have come to reformulate the Hamletian doubt as “To be and to not be: that’s the query.”
That is the nice query of the poetic creation of the XXI century: to not proceed pouring new wine into previous wineskins; promote new methods of pondering, new methods of feeling and appearing for a brand new human horizon, for a brand new planetary civilization, for an inevitable course of of transhumanization.
We could have for this all the heritage of the previous, with all the creativeness and fantasy of the current, with the utopian attraction of the future. It’s important to be a wonderful reader to aspire to be a worthy poet. And be open to all prospects, together with the many who this new third digital and networked setting permits for poetic creation, with its new multimodal discourses. Poetry of convergence of phrase, visible picture, music and motion (efficiency).
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Manuel Ángel Vázquez Medel doesn’t obtain a wage, nor does he perform consulting work, nor does he personal shares, nor does he obtain financing from any firm or group that may profit from this text, and has declared that he lacks related hyperlinks past the educational place cited.
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