Ensaiopoema: diversidades críticas

Abstract

This poem-essay discusses in an oblique (fictionalizing) way a poet apprentice’s (who knows? Maybe a critic) experience of sentimental education as a result of reading poetry (mainly), theory and criticism during the process of academic training. It defends the (hypo)thesis that, if considered as different parts of a whole (the human language), there’s no possible differentiation between poem and essay. A poem can be as theoretic-critical as an essay. The task I propose to undertake with this paper is the reflection upon the hypothesis that poetry and knowledge, or, more precisely, poetic creation and philosophical thinking are in and of themselves fundamentally indistinguishable in their origin, particularly in the ways they relate to each other – save the evident (merely apparent?) formal matricial singularizing differences between them. Poets and thinkers, when dealing with the same structure and existential support, would elaborate experiences, both sensitive and intellectual in search of the same end: to reach ways, be them sophisticated or simple, of acquiring consciousness of the Self and of the things in the world