A Place of Absence and Silence in the Metaphysics of Begegnungen: The Poetry of R.S. Thomas and Tudor Arghezi  Cover Image

A Place of Absence and Silence in the Metaphysics of Begegnungen: The Poetry of R.S. Thomas and Tudor Arghezi
A Place of Absence and Silence in the Metaphysics of Begegnungen: The Poetry of R.S. Thomas and Tudor Arghezi

Author(s): Emilia Ivancu
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Universitatea »1 Decembrie 1918« Alba Iulia
Keywords: begegnung; metaphysics; I-Thou; I-It; absence; silence; Buber; Abercuawg

Summary/Abstract: The present paper analyses several texts written by two poets coming from two countries of Europe that lie at the two ends of the continent, R. S. Thomas – Wales and Tudor Arghezi –Romania. It focuses on the modality in which both of them, in their attempt to meet the absolute, develop a poetic discourse marked by absence and silence that proves to be, paradoxically, the point of begenung.

  • Issue Year: 13/2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 51-64
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English
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