IOAN ALEXANDRU. NEOEXPRESSIONIST POETRY
IOAN ALEXANDRU. NEOEXPRESSIONIST POETRY

Summary/Abstract: The beginning period of Ioan Alexandru's creation falls into the stage of patriarchal poetic neo- expressionism, having as features the opening to the metaphysical, the monstrous accumulations, the meditation, the mythical, the return of the ego to the origins, the creation of an objective universe, the expressively distorted images towards the ideal, the search for a spiritual reality, for the original. The expressionist features of Ioan Alexandru's poetry can already be seen in the poem that opens the volume, The Child of Peace. Here, the poetic images are alive, childhood is the fruit of a harmonious historical period, but it comes after a suffering of the Romanian people caused by the World War. The visual images are contrasting, expressionist, the poet was born when they "hung the last cannons in their own shadow", in the year "holy called Liberation", In the second volume Life for the time being (1965), Ioan Alexandru applies a common principle to expressionists, “deduced from the idea that behind obscure things is a deeper reality of existence, that the plant world has a nature of its own that the poet must reach”. The volume stands out through the expressionism manifested in the embodiment of an amalgam of strong, contrasting artistic images, "discovering the soul of the material universe is the decisive poetic act", the poet taking this idea from Lucian Blaga and introduces it into a lyrical mythology trying to give small elements cosmic dimensions”. Here it is better to see that the poet "has a strong sense of the elements", "everything is subject to meditation: matter in a state of aggregation or dissolution, the anxieties of age, erotic impulses, the physiological mystery, the succession of seasons and, by correspondence, generations and ages. biological, the tricks of the time; doubt is the state conducive to contemplation." emphasizing that he is the first singer in this nation who knows "war and no exploitation".

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