Relaţia teandrică şi metamorfozele ei estetice în poezia metafizică românească dintre cele două războaie
The Theandric Relationship and Its Aesthetic Metamorphoses in Romanian Metaphysical Poetry Between the Two World Wars

Summary/Abstract: The relationship between man and God is a strong and fecund poetic topic,which marks the Romanian poetry between the two world wars. It is a majortheme of the poets grouped around the Gândirea magazine, on the background of the literary and spiritual current of Orthodoxism, especially for poets as Nichifor Crainic, Vasile Voiculescu, Ion Pillat. . A special case is Arghezi, one of the greatest poets of Romanian literature. The theandric relationship is a constant theme of these poets, which lies, at least in certain periods, at the core of their work. In Arghezi’s case, it constitutes the very axis of his existence and poetry. The archetypal model of human communication with God are the Psalms of the Old Testament. The Orthodoxist poetry keeps the spirit of the Psalms, in poems which affirm, praise, pray to God, lit from inside by the light of faith and hope. Sometimes, these poems achieve mystic accents (Voiculescu), in outstanding aesthetic objectifications. Arghezi recovers the biblical species of the psalm in the Romanian modernist poetry and consecrates it as a lyrical mode with a great poetic potential. His psalms do not have in common with David’s Psalms but the man-God type of addressing, being, in spirit, to their antipodes. Arghezi’s Psalms translate poetically the gnoseologic and ontological experience of the man who seeks God, begs for His answer, who wants to believe, but on a rational basis. The Arghezian faith needs certainties, which never come. Arghezi’s Psalms are poems of seeking God, of doubt and metaphysical longing, of an unanswered search. The theandric relationship in Arghezi’s universe means the loneliness and abandonment, the fear and despair of man in front of death and nothingness, reproach, rebellion, violence, blasphemy, nihilism, extreme moods and attitudes in his relation to divinity. With Arghezi, the tragic intensity of the existential experience generates remarkable effects on the aesthetic level, by a series of masterpieces of Romanian and universal poetry.

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