The Poetry of the Tanatic Imaginary

Abstract

The article studies the artistic representations of death in several poetic texts signed by Emilian Galaicu-Păun, Nicolae Popa, Dumitru Crudu, Leo Bordeianu, Irina Nechit, Marcela Benea, Alexandru Vakulovski. The tanatic imaginary is produced in a multitude of projections depending on the position of man towards the religious vision, through the prism of which death is only a release of the (immortal) soul from the body, from the matter that degrades and transforms into other vital structures, and with the profane perception, which defines the phenomenon as a complete end of the organism’s life cycle. The author especially researches the system of tanatic images formed through the artistic reconceptualization of the ideational relationship death-creation, intensively explored in contemporary Bessarabian poetry.