FAIRY TALE PATTERNS IN THE POETRY OF CEZAR BALTAG
FAIRY TALE PATTERNS IN THE POETRY OF CEZAR BALTAG

Summary/Abstract: In Civilization and its Discontents (1930), Freud argues that civilization was necessarily and tragically built on the suppression and sublimation of instinct. Cezar Baltag’s world is one of conflicts he does not come to terms with, for which the poet finds no answers in a world of limits and limitations, hence his need to escape in his wandering for answers, in his quest for identity, into another one without limits, finality, closure. A deconstruction of the world, of reality, into fairy tales and into poems. He used fairy tales to project another world, one of psychological depth, without borders, a locus for his deep meanings to take roots, a world set free of constraints, of limits and limitations. The fertile ground of fairy tales was wisely used by Baltag in his poetry, with conscious intent, he entitled or subtitled some of his poems -pattern de basm/fairy tale pattern- taking his readers into a realm of multiple meanings.

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