Poetry of Expression and Poetry of Research

Abstract

There are numberless circumstances that secretly make a poem . Whatever we may think, a poem is rarely entirely the product of our will. It springs quite spontaneously from the inner recesses of our nature and reveals new riches in our souls. That a poem is the outcome of great historical and collective events, is in itself a hot debate. To understand a poem means to capture in a dialogue with the poet the meaning he wants to give to his words without ever forgetting to restore him the “shadow” that is to accompany him on his journey, on his expedition into the truth, with enough confidence that the paradoxes perceived are not simple stagnant ponds of meaning but real adventures in poetic accuracy. The beggar, a living dead man in search of his evanescent shadow, is an indomitable rambler always vacillating and diverse, but a philosopher, in the first place, masterly uses concepts such as: “spleen”, “savoir-faire”, “savoir-vivre” and in the second, “philo”, “sado”, “maso”. He never stops forming and informing his reader in a sort of reversal of maieutics.