Icoană şi semn în lirica lui Odysseas Elytis
Icon and sign in the poetry of Odysseas Elytis

Summary/Abstract: Elytis is the one who praises life in its wholeness and the joy of living, his work has three periods, the first is marked by structuralism, the school where the poet had his apprenticeship, the second marked by the discourse’s maturation and spiritualization, containing the ample poem To Axion Esti, and the third represents a contrast of the second, the most representative poem being ”Maria Nefeli”. His tendency towards the image and the sacred bring him towards the Byzantine icon where he borrows elements and symbols from, poetically valorizing it, but without poaching it into poetic discourse. Two tendencies can be found here: one of lifting the individual towards the sacred and another one of irruption of the sacred in the secular, thus spiritualizing the world, but not referring to the deep theological dimension of the canon, but to a quite cryptic vision, created by the poet with elements that belong to the three basic paradigms that marked the Greek spirituality: Antiquity, the Byzantine Christianity and the up-to-dateness marked by major historical disquietude and thretened by rationalism.

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