Poésie et absence
Poetry and absence

Summary/Abstract: Considering poetry as a literary genre in close relation with absence and scarcity, this paper deals with some of the most frequent and significant forms of absence that appear in poetic texts. The physical absence of the other, due either to death or to the distance between the two individuals, is the most common kind in the lyric poetry. Modern poetry often deals with gods’ absence, which represents an important loss for the contemporary human being, trying to understand or face it. There is also the lack of inspiration and words with efficient expressive capacity that make poets suffer. However, poetry the only way they express their situation and create a meaningful poetic language through poetry. Finally, absence in poetry is also a fundamental sign of its generic specificity in connection with the means that it uses, as well as with its printed representation on paper, especially in the contemporary production. In all cases, poetry, based on the dialectic of being-not being, operates as a material, sensible and intellectual presence, which like the primordial logos fills the vacuum, eliminates absence and scarcity, generates and animates the human world and enriches it with presence and meaning.

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