ASPECTS OF THE IMAGINARY IN EMIL BOTTA’S POETRY
ASPECTS OF THE IMAGINARY IN EMIL BOTTA’S POETRY

Summary/Abstract: Concrete, singular and unrepeatable poems can also be considered poems written by Emil Botta. The cold, the shadow, the chimera, the sleep, the dream, the death are emblematic metaphors for Botta's lyricism, a lyricism dominated by the secret blooms of the dream, located somewhere between spectacular and fantasy. The geography of the imaginary is dominated by desolate landscapes, which threaten the being, although the poet sketches an idealized decoration. The spaces of imagination are evanescent and are in accordance with the state that the poet goes through, through the filter of his dreams. Dreamlike spaces are spaces in which the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly bear the sign of balance. The geography of the imaginary would not be complete if it did not incorporate the theme of death, seen as a ceremonial change of mask after mask as a game sustained by an imaginative frenzy. To read a poem written by Botta does not mean to read another poem, and not even to enter, through this poem, into the essence of poetry. The reading of the poem is "the poem itself which asserts itself as a work by reading and which, in the space kept open by the reader, gives birth to the lesson that receives it, becomes power to read, becomes power to read, becomes open communication between power and impossibility, between the power related to the moment of reading and the impossibility related to the moment of writing”.

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