The Language of Oneiric Images in the Poetry of Leonid Dimov

Abstract

Many either do not understand the nature of Dimov’s creation, or understand it superficially, not recognizing his originality and treating him as a controversial poet. However, everyone is fascinated by his poems and admires the creator, as the world of his poems is permeated by an abstract drawing, a telecollage with new playful conventions, transmuted from another reality. Neither the dream nor the reality is concrete, but abstract, made according to an enigmatic and tempting code. Dimov’s poetry is seductive, because a reader cannot resist a free creator. Oneirism binds its creator and lecturer through a heuristic promise. For Leonid Dimov, poetry is born from the conclusion of a pact between poetry and life, between poetry and the world. The poet destroys the pre-poetic world and builds a new, dreamlike world, living in it like a strange demon, and projecting his image as an artist in all kinds of allegorical representatives: the jester, the acrobat, the juggler, the jeweler, etc. Dimov approached the dream taken as an abstract model and not as a source of creation, following a neo-oneiric poetics. By creating dreams, the author encompasses the whole of existence, entering these invented, alien, even inhuman worlds.