Ioana Ieronim – lumea ca text şi semiotica existenţei
Ioana Ieronim – The World as Text and the Semiology of Existence

Summary/Abstract: Ioana Ieronim’s poetry marks a breakthrough in nowadays postmodern poetics through its ontological quality. Moreover, the technique of her poetical discourse closely relates existential experience to art, as the meaning of both is epiphanic. By transgressing time and space, given the fact that every instant of life appears as unique and irrepeatable, the poetic experience is, actually, the experience of a continuous present, a sort of ideal pattern of existence, revealing itself just apparently to be different in various situations. This type of lyrical discourse, making use of archetypes and symbols, which are inevitably connected to myths, is open to a whole range of interpretations. That is why, both the empirical reality and the poetical text can be viewed as ‘signs’ of a broader, meaningful existence displaying itself in various shapes in different chronological situations. The poetical discourse is a sort of an ‘objective correlative’ of the epiphany of the broader existence. Viewing both poetry and life as a ‘text’ to be deciphered, Ioana Ieronim’s poetry aims at the universal language of art, which descends from myth and comprehends significant images, gestures, experiences, etc., as related to existence. Although postmodern in technique, this type of poetry is gnoseological in its essence. The novelty Ioana Ieronim brings about today is the need of a holistic view of the world, acquired through individual experience of both empirical experience and the text. Making use of traditional, mythical and alchemical motives, as well as of procedures, such as coincidentia oppositorum, the artistic text and the ‘text’ of life require to be deciphered to the same extent, in spite of any superficial appearances. In this respect, the poet ponders over the potential meanings brought to the present times by words, which have come down to us from times immemorial, much like stones. Words, as ‘signs’, carry the burden of illo tempore, but also of the different ambiguous situations in which they have ever been used, for different existential purposes, and in different historical contexts. The poet, as a scribe, or as a ‘catalyst’ in the process of revealing the ‘true story’ of being, is torn among his individual, biographic experience, and an ideal pattern of existence that he or she has a duty to disclose impersonally. Although Ioana Ieronim chose a postmodern technique of witnessing reality, whereby the poetic text serves as an ‘instrument’ used to assemble empirical ‘facts’, the deeper structure of her discourse points to the poet’s predicament of being caught between the current moment and its deeper overall existential significance, while, in parallel, words themselves, as instruments of poetry, reveal, and hide the surface and the deeper structure of reality. Therefore, epiphany, as coincidentia oppositorum, reunites and motivates the ‘text of life’ and the ‘artistic text’ alike. Ioana Ieronim’s poetry suggests the fact that, if devoid of interpret

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