Absolute poetry

The absolute poetry (from lat. Absolutus = "detached" and Greek. Ποίησις (poiesis) = "seal"; fr. Poésie pure [ pøe'zi py r ] = "pure poetry"; and absolute seal ) referred to in the seal the design of literary works free from references to reality.

definition

Absolute poetry is poetry that understands its poetry as an end in itself. The works only stand for themselves; in extreme cases, the content of the poetry even recedes completely. In contrast to committed literature , for example, absolute poetry is free of objectives outside of art. So she doesn't want to convey meaning either . The poem is built up solely from linguistic references, the form is more important than the content.

history

The first approaches to absolute poetry can be found in early Romanticism in the theoretical writings of Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829), who called for the "absolute novel" that includes all novels. Even Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven (1845), one of the early precursors.

In the French art theory of the 19th century, absolute poetry was then realized in “ L'art pour l'art ”, especially in the poems of Charles Baudelaire ( The Flowers of Evil , 1857). It reached its first climax in the symbolist works of Stéphane Mallarmé and Arthur Rimbaud . In the German-speaking world, the Sturmkreis by Herwarth Walden , Rainer Maria Rilke and Stefan George are among the most important representatives of the absolute poets. The latter defined his poetic program as follows:

“The value of the poetry is not determined by the sense (otherwise it would be wisdom) but rather the form, ie absolutely nothing external but that deeply arousing in measure and sound, which at all times differentiates the original masters from the descendants of the artists of the second order to have."

- Stefan George : Sheets for Art

Absolute poetry was influenced by expressionist forms of expression such as August Stramm's lyrical language experiments. It also played a central role in Dadaism .

After 1945 the ideas of absolute poetry were re-realized in concrete poetry . Even Gottfried Benn absolute seal can be attributed.

See also

• Absolute music

literature

• Jürgen Brokoff: History of Pure Poetry. From the Weimar Classic to the historical avant-garde . Göttingen: Wallstein 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0616-5 .
• Marlies Janz : On the commitment of absolute poetry. On the poetry and aesthetics of Paul Celan. Syndicate, Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 978-3-8108-0014-5 .
• Michael Landmann: The absolute poetry. Essais on Philosophical Poetics. Klett, Stuttgart 1963.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Absolute Dichtung  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.3 MB)   . In: Abitur knowledge German. Basic concepts of literature from A - Z . Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Leipzig 2004