Poetic images in Lampejos by Leonilda Hilgenberg Justus

Abstract

Poetry has come to being along with myth, in the primordial times and so it refers more closely to the sacred. As time passed, it separated in parts from this compulsively organic relation that united men, gods and nature, but it has not lost its essence which puts poetry in close relation with the mythical and the magical. Nowadays the poetic still maintains its shifting language, which keeps men in dialogue with the world. In this perspective, the aim of this work is to bring forth some considerations concerning poetic images in Lampejos, by the writer Leonilda Hilgenberg Justus, trying to show some of these linguistically built images in the haicai genre. With that purpose in mind, this study is based on the thoughts concerning poetry and the imaginary, found in works of authors such as Octavio Paz (1994; 1996), Gaston Bachelard (1993), Gilbert Durand (2002), and others. As a result, Hilgenberg Justus’s thriving glimmers show the establishment of man’s symbolic relationship with the world through poetic language, which is a power of the human imagination