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poetic material:
M(arin) S(orescu) Scară la cer
1 Un fir de păianjen
2 Atîrnă de tavan,
3 Exact deasupra patului meu.
4 In fiecare zi observ
5 Cum se lasă tot mai jos.
6 Mi se trimite şi
7 Scara la cer - zic,
8 Mi se aruncă de sus.
9 Deşi am slăbit îngrozitor de mult,
10 Sînt doar fantoma celui ce am fost,
11 Mă gîndesc că trupul meu
12 Este totuşi prea greu
13 Pentru scara asta delicată.
14 – Suflete, ia-o tu înainte,
15 Pîş! Pîş!
P(hilip) L(arkin) Going
1 There is an evening coming in
2 Across the fields, one never seen before,
3 That lights no lamps.
4 Silken it seems at a distance, yet
5 When it is drawn over the knees and breast
6 It brings no comfort.
7 Where has the tree gone, that locked
8 Earth to the sky? What is under my hands,
9 That I cannot feel?
10 What loads my hands down?
2. Cognition as unfolded in these poems
We are asking ourselves what recovery of non-explicit material occurs in Marin
Sorescu (MS) and Philip Larkin (PL). The shared topic is the passage from closed systems
(extinction closes upon itself and is studied here as covertness) to open systems, heading
upward (MS) or heading downward (PL), while the linguistic stuff will be shown to
outwardly bloom into hosts of meanings. An almost limitless number of presuppositions,
entailments and implicatures spring up in pragmatic ways.
On an experiential basis, the poems explored here make use of metaphors grounded
in the nature of one’s everyday interactions with the world. The process which operates as a
vital relation is called ‘compression’ in cognitivism (Evans 2007: 30). Let us expand: an outer
space relation in a distinct input space is ‘shortened’. The connection between counterparts
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