marcin
(Marcin)
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in memory, and in part already consigned
for ever to the cemetery of Adami. What is
at stake is Butera’s conception of poetry,
which is called to play a role of neoclassical
value, as comfort and illusion, but also as
testimonial. The serenity that through it can
reach the world cannot be hampered by the
sad observations on reality. Poetry must
serve man as instrument of illusion, comfort
him in the moments of melancholy and
sadness, freeing him from negative thoughts
even when these are induced by the analysis
of events. Butera discovers in popular
consciousness the tension of the anecdote
that metaphorizes the message, and makes it
analogically expressive of moral truths
through associations which unleash the
mental proliferation on which rests the
culture of the early ages of peoples. In some
ways it is as if through it the poet aimed at