The person belongs to an event that outlines the form of an instant here, now; where the metamorphosis of places and stories de-personalizes the place into an elsewhere and time fluidifies into an indeterminacy of ages and an ou-topical history, making the person linked to the finding of himself in what American poetry has identified as a haunted sky, I-divided, emphasis of command: the perception becomes, redemptively, generational palingenesis, unity of archetypal presence, but also inspiration to a collective call of disenchantment, to rediscover the traces of a pastoral sense of mystical awakening, possible in community catechesis of historical witness and belonging to a place declined to the present, where also memory, anthropological protection and ontological guarantee of the past Is a safeguard of the present
AMERICAN CATECHETICAL POETRY: MYSTICAL SENSE AND COMMUNITY AWAKENING. FROM WALT WHITMAN TO DEREK WALCOTT
Gianfranco Longo
2026-01-01
Abstract
The person belongs to an event that outlines the form of an instant here, now; where the metamorphosis of places and stories de-personalizes the place into an elsewhere and time fluidifies into an indeterminacy of ages and an ou-topical history, making the person linked to the finding of himself in what American poetry has identified as a haunted sky, I-divided, emphasis of command: the perception becomes, redemptively, generational palingenesis, unity of archetypal presence, but also inspiration to a collective call of disenchantment, to rediscover the traces of a pastoral sense of mystical awakening, possible in community catechesis of historical witness and belonging to a place declined to the present, where also memory, anthropological protection and ontological guarantee of the past Is a safeguard of the presentI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
