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RE: ADSactly Literature - Symbolism in poetic modernity
Interesting as all literary or artistic movements were born as a response to other movements that may have been thought worn out or that did not capture the essence of art. All movement is founded on the bases (or ashes) of the previous movement.The poems of these writers have been recognized not only for their subject matter but also for the structure they used. I do not perceive, for example, poetry, especially far from the metaphor, the symbol, the image. As I read your post, I remembered Baudelaire's beautiful poem Correspondence:
Creation is a temple where living pillars
Sometimes they let dark voices arise;
There men pass through thickets
Symbols they observe with familiar eyes.
Thank you for the gratifying post, @josemalavem
I appreciate your reading and comment, @nancybriti. That aspect you notice is precisely the basis of what Paz calls the "tradition of rupture", an absolutely modern feature in art: how a movement is born from breaking with a previous one(s), although in many cases they are reinterpretations or enrichments of those.
The poem that you quote from Baudelaire, "Correspondences", condenses part of his vision of the symbol, in that suggestive manifestation that is synaesthesia. Greetings.