LUDIC AND RELIGIOUS ASPECTS IN ARGHEZI’S POETRY. AN INTRODUCTION TO ARGHEZI’S WORK. FROM THE SACRED TO THE PLAYFUL AND VICE VERSA
LUDIC AND RELIGIOUS ASPECTS IN ARGHEZI’S POETRY. AN INTRODUCTION TO ARGHEZI’S WORK. FROM THE SACRED TO THE PLAYFUL AND VICE VERSA

Summary/Abstract: This study wants to be an introduction for the critical and meta-critical reevaluation of the entire poetry of Tudor Arghezi from the ludic and sacred perspective. I started from the already established aspect that poetry was born in play and in myth, in the pleasure of the poetic form and meta-form. Arghezi's religiousness could have as a starting point the sacred play, because humans' play has its place in the holidays' sphere and in the cult's sphere, meaning the sacred sphere. But, playing with poetry, just matching words, (matching is, in its essence, a type of game) T. Arghezi, playing honest, spoiled the game, just like any other reformer and revolutionary of language, being a founder. Thus, the matching of words is an Ŗars poeticaŗ, equivalent to Ŗars combinatoriaŗ and it imposed the existence of some trans-historic constants: the pure song, the cosmic game, the ritualistic game, the pencil, inscription, satire, imprecation, recoded through a transcendent stylistics. The liturgical and profane game consumes purporting to a new integrated entity as a consequence of the transgressions that are mutually profitable. The consequence is a formidable one: the renationalisation of the image and the re-imagination of nature. The sacred-ludic function in Arghezi's poetry is simultaneous with the subversive function of imagination.

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