POIEMA VS LOGOS – SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON “ART FOR ART’S SAKE” IN THE WORKS OF E. A. POE AND C. S. LEWIS
POIEMA VS LOGOS – SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON “ART FOR ART’S SAKE” IN THE WORKS OF E. A. POE AND C. S. LEWIS

Summary/Abstract: In the 19th and 20th centuries, the movement “art for art’s sake” raised essential questions about the role of literary effects and meaning in a work of fiction. This paper considers the importance of poiema and logos in the context of this ideology, focusing on two texts that treated the theme of death: Edgar Allan Poe’s narrative poem “The Raven” and C. S. Lewis’s novel Out of the Silent Planet. While Poe prioritised the aesthetic effects of his works, completely excluding any message, Lewis began with a clear idea of the meaning he intended to convey and then articulated it in appropriate literary language. By contrasting these two different authors, a series of conclusions will be drawn about the implications of this famous aesthetic philosophy on a larger scale that surpasses the limitations of the era, nationality or literary genres.

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