The Transcendence that Emerges from the Poetic Word
A Play between Sound and Meaning
Abstract
The present study aims to explore the mode of being of the poetic word by analyzing the type of transcendence that emerges from it, with the goal of uncovering a defining feature of the ontological constitution of language. To this end, we will briefly point to Heidegger's influence on the question of why language is more expressive in poetic works. The eminent work of art will be an opening of being, where language can be born, with poetic language preceding its everyday and commonly shared condition among mortals. Thus, we must distinguish the saying of the poetic word from that of the word spoken in everyday life, since, following Heidegger, the poem brings the world into Dasein through its authentic saying. This becomes possible through writing as a fundamental possibility of language, a theme developed by Gadamer. When what is written has the hermeneutic structure of a text, the word becomes truly expressive. We will see that in writing – as a characteristic feature of the poetic work of art – its truth can emerge as a unity or play between sound and meaning, a thesis we find in Gadamer’s thought.
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