Autore
Giusti, Francesco

Titolo
Il complesso di Icaro e il canto del cigno, ovvero due miti del soggetto lirico
Periodico
Strumenti critici
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 131 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 93 - Pagina finale: 118

Two topoi show the ascensional quality of lyric poetry, its founding on an (ideal) movement from earth to heaven, actually a movement more invoked than realized: Icarus and the Swan. Icarus is a myth of the human desire to imitate nature, the attempt to create, by techne, something similar to the real object. But, in not being identical to divine creation, man's creation define itself as human. The Swan is the embodiment of the modern lyric speaker: a bird that does not manage to leave the ground behind. The human desire of elevation towards heaven, as a utopia of perfect sense, and its being unavoidably tied to earth. Between these two figures the lyrical subject defines itself.



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