Ion Vatamanu: the Poetry of Vegetal Pulsations

Abstract

The article proposes a hermeneutic approach to the vegetal motifs and symbols in Ion Vatamanu’s poetry. The author explores the ideational space of the great themes of the poetry of his times (love, homeland, maternal spirit, death, eternity etc.) and transposes into concrete visual or acoustic, olfactory or tactile images, man’s reactions to the greatness of divine creation, the revelation of the macrouniverse pulsating movements reflected in the microuniverse. The system of meanings of the symbolic elements of flora and the phenomenon of cyclical regeneration of living matter configure a new myth of anthropogenesis, based the idea of the vegetable origin of the human being. An impressive range of feelings is reflected in the images that capture the euphonies of nature’s metamorphoses. The leitmotif of the leaf, in the creation of Ion Vatamanu, triggers the creative energies, generates the artistic word, the significant nucleus of which concentrates the history of the entire universe becoming.