The depiction of God in the poetry of Blas de Otero and Yehuda Amichai
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Blas de Otero, YehudaAmichai, God, uprooted poetry, Israeli poetry, existencial poetry.
Abstract
The poetry of Blas de Otero (1961) andYehudaAmichai (1924-2000) invites the 20th century human being to speak out on the main issues of his existence: love, loneliness, suffering, solidarity, injustice, death, hope. A central place in their work is taken up by the merciful and faithful God of the Bible, whose image seems to be refuted by the dramatic situation in which the human being happens to live. The poet’s word stands up against God’s word equipped with his resources: intertextuality, metaphor, comparison, antithesis, sound effects, irony. Both authors place the reader before the task of construct and deconstruct the depiction of the Biblical God.Downloads
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2013-09-26
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Garijo Serrano J. A. (2013). The depiction of God in the poetry of Blas de Otero and Yehuda Amichai. ’Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones, 18, 111-133. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ILUR.2013.v18.43045
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