AN ANALYSIS OF THE POEM URBAN RAIN BY ION MINULESCU
AN ANALYSIS OF THE POEM URBAN RAIN BY ION MINULESCU

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to present a new perspective on Ion Minulescu's poem, Urban Rain, from the point of view of the features of the Symbolist poem, but also of a parallel with the haiku poem. The parallel is legitimized by the same visual power of the images, as well as by the elements related to the allusions, and by the possibility of moving from the literal, concrete meaning to the figurative and abstract one. As the images, both visual and auditory, are being perceived by the reader as being so alive, through the lens of W. Iser's reader response theory, in Minulescu's poem, they can remind of the haiku poem, practiced not only in Japan, but also in the Western world, in adapted form.

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