THE TRANSNATIONAL CHARACTER OF THE METAPHOR IN ROMANIAN CONFESSIONALFEMININE POETRY
THE TRANSNATIONAL CHARACTER OF THE METAPHOR IN ROMANIAN CONFESSIONALFEMININE POETRY

Summary/Abstract: The poetry written in the 80’s in Romania, implicitly the women poets of those times were largely influenced by the morphology and stylistics of the confessional text. Therefore, American poets like Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton became sources of inspiration for Mariana Marin and Marta Petreu’s vision on metaphor in their poems, being thus the heralds of a new social, cultural and psychological identity the lyrical ego represents. Postmodern abstraction and metaphor are no longer considered to be, like in the era of modernity, the focal, metaphysical point of a poetry written on a totally different ontological background; or, if the metaphor is still used and appears inside the text, its accent shifts from the linguistic to the ontological approach. Metaphor comes to illustrate a psychological reality intimately linked to the postmodern schizoid conscience, thus showing, somehow paradoxically, its mimetic character. Defined by the duplicitous functioning of its inner mechanism which, as Paul Ricoeur observes, oscillates between the two instances: “to be” and “to be like”, the metaphor catches things while they are developing and places itself on the mined ground of postmodern consciousness and protean reflection on the world. The disorder in the plane of metaphor reception will turn into the reflex before the external reality which, in its turn, shows the growing tendency to melt into the osmotic, inner, subjective vision of man on reality.

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