Abstract
The present paper aims at giving a brief insight into the poetry of one of the most important Romanian poet, Lucian Blaga, representative of modernism, focusing on the search of the Absolute from the linguistic point of view. Mention should be made of the fact that the metaphors of the Absolute are analysed both from a traditional point of view as well as from a more recent one – cognitivism. Reference is made only to those poems that are more suggestive in this respect. When analysing Lucian Blaga’s metaphors, it is compulsory to take his philosophical construction as a starting point. Ample and complex, it aims at presenting Blaga’s views on the creation of world, knowledge, history and culture. As everything is closely intertwined, it is essential to mention at least some of the main ideas of his philosophical work in connection to our subject.
Highlights
Unlike Neo-Platonists, who believed that the purpose of man is to regain the lost divine condition, Blaga considers the purpose of human beings to be different
Blagas metaphors of the Absolute, which have been analysed in the present work, refer mainly to water, light and a certain model
The metaphors of the Absolute rendered by means of a certain model are the ones that prevail by far
Summary
Blaga conceives a metaphysical centre- ``overwhelming but barely felt` (Blaga, 2015: p. 24)- whom he calls the Great Anonymous, that is the creator of the world we live in. 24)- whom he calls the Great Anonymous, that is the creator of the world we live in He is self-sufficient and capable of reproducing himself ad infinitum, being able to create other equivalents for Him According to Blaga, human beings can not either understand or reveal the ultimate truth because they have been conceived like this from the very beginning They are structurally unable to achieve the Absolute, even if they struggle to do it: ``The Great Anonymous has put in us the irrevocable urge towards`truth` (...). Blaga mentions the fact that the attempt of the luciferic knowledge to reveal the cryptic part of an opened mystery can lead to three means of approaching an opened mystery:. -perpetuation – defined as`the impossibility of revealing the cryptic part of an opened mystery`, ``zero revelation`, dealing with the enstatic intellect Blaga’s minus-knowledge theory implies the idea that there are mysteries requiring precisely this type of knowledge
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