POÉSIE ET ÊTRE (POETRY AND BEING)

• Main Author: HORIA BĂDESCU
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press 2015-11-01
• Series: Agathos: An International Review of the Humanities and Social Sciences
• Online Access: http://www.agathos-international-review.com/issue6_2/05.Horia%20Badescu.pdf

This essay focuses on the value of poetry to fill up the infinite horizon of the Absolute by a positive halo, stressing that poetry is/means, among other things, an ontological memory: it is the memory of Being. Especially in nowadays – so « poor » in authentic life, in humanness and sacred – we experience an acute awareness of the need to return to Meaning. And the poem mostly offers a path of the man’s search for meaning. It unveils a profound necessity to being through and into the Meaning perspective. Poetry is to be considered as the Being of self – the human and the cosmic alike -, in the play of essence and existence. The poem is part in the enhancement of the endless world, seeing that it is able to create Reality. The very condition of the poem is to be concomitantly created and creative. Poetry reveals a proximity, but not a limitation. Ceaselessly the poem opens and no less it encloses the mystery of Being; so, it challenges to questioning upon the Meaning, eventually finding the great worth of poetry.