A deep multi-level reading and analysis of “The Tree” by the contemporary English poet Richard berengarten. “The Tree” (1980) consists in 365 lines extremely rich in echoes and literary allusions (from Anglo-Saxon to contemporary American poetry, from Sophocles to Shakespeare), symbolism (axial imagery, micro- and macro-cosm), myths and mythologies (Celtic, Druidic, Greek), occult and exoteric (alchemy, initiation, Hermeticism, “coincidentia oppositorum”, Heraclitus), artistic (Samuel Palmer paintings), religious (Kabbalah, Bible, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, ancient matriarchal cults), anthropological and psychoanalytical (C.G. Jung, W. Reich), scientific, naturalistic and ecological (plant and animal kingdom, relationship Man-Nature, physics of particles)
Analisi approfondita a più livelli di lettura ed interpretazione di “The Tree”, uno dei testi più originali e complessi del poeta inglese contemporaneo Richard Berengarten. “The Tree” (1980) consta di 365 versi ed è denso di echi e richiami letterari (dalla poesia Anglo-Saxon a quella americana contemporanea, da Sofocle a Shakespeare), simbolismi (simbolismo assiale, micro e macro-cosmo), miti e mitologie (celtiche, druidiche, greca), occulti ed esoterici (alchimia, iniziazione, ermetismo, “coincidentia oppositorum”, Eraclito), artistici (pittura di Samuel Palmer), religiosi (Kabbalah, Bibbia, Cristianesimo, Induismo e Buddismo, religioni matriarcali protostoriche), antropologici e psiconalitici (C.G. Jung e W. Reich), scientifici, naturalistici ed ecologici (mondo vegetale ed animale, rapporto Uomo-Natura, fisica delle particelle e nucleare)
Roots and Rings: Under the Shade of Richard Berengarten's 'Tree', 2011.
Roots and Rings: Under the Shade of Richard Berengarten's 'Tree'
Casella, Stefano Maria
2011-01-01
Abstract
A deep multi-level reading and analysis of “The Tree” by the contemporary English poet Richard berengarten. “The Tree” (1980) consists in 365 lines extremely rich in echoes and literary allusions (from Anglo-Saxon to contemporary American poetry, from Sophocles to Shakespeare), symbolism (axial imagery, micro- and macro-cosm), myths and mythologies (Celtic, Druidic, Greek), occult and exoteric (alchemy, initiation, Hermeticism, “coincidentia oppositorum”, Heraclitus), artistic (Samuel Palmer paintings), religious (Kabbalah, Bible, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, ancient matriarchal cults), anthropological and psychoanalytical (C.G. Jung, W. Reich), scientific, naturalistic and ecological (plant and animal kingdom, relationship Man-Nature, physics of particles)I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.