Language as a Used-up and Forgotten Poem. Analysis of the Relationship between Poetry and Language from an Ontological Perspective

Authors

  • Antonio Gutiérrez-Pozo Universidad de Sevilla

Keywords:

language, poetry, to speak, to say, truth, Heidegger, Gadamer

Abstract

The article analyzes the relationship between language and poetry from the ontological understanding of the power of the word as expounded by Heidegger and Gadamer and in contrast to the positivist understanding of language and poetry. We begin by studying the positivist position. For it, language is a tool at our disposal and poetry is this same language, but elevated to great power. Then, we present the ontological understanding of this question. Also, we see that poetry is the essence of language, which indeed consists in bringing things into being. Finally, we deduce here that this poetic power is used up and forgotten. This is the origin of the language we use every day.

Author Biography

Antonio Gutiérrez-Pozo, Universidad de Sevilla

Ph.D. in Philosophy and Full Professor in the Department of Aesthetics at the University of Seville (Spain). His areas of study include philosophy of art, theory of poetry, and Spanish thought from a phenomenological and hermeneutic perspective.

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