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Vasilij Kandinskij
Visualizza: Alcuni Cerchi
Kandinskij: la Neue Künstlervereinigung
Kandinskij: Der Blaue Reiter
Kandinskij: l'esperienza alla Bahaus
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Eliot: The Waste Land
Luigi Pirandello
Pirandello: la poetica
Pirandello: Il fu Mattia Pascal

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La relatività ristretta
Le ripercussioni filosofiche della relatività
Le ripercussioni letterarie della relatività

ELIOT:
HIS POETIC CONCEPTION

He soon rejected the romantic conventions that had characterised poetry from Wordsworth to the Decadents; endowed with a cosmopolitan culture, he broke away from all the canons and created a new poetic technique.

The Themes he dealt with are:

• Modern man's alienation from society;
• Time versus eternity;
• The question of personal identity;
• The problem of faith in modern civilisation;
• The sense that the present is inferior to the past;
• The fear of living;
• The normal, spiritual and sentimental emptiness of our time.

His innovation owed a lot to his intensive study of ancient and modern writers and literary currents:

• maintaining that poetry is to be used as an instrument to express not the poet's own sentiments but other people's feelings, he advocated the complete objective impersonality of art; for this reason he privileged dramatic monologue (from "Robert Browing") and interior monologue;
• poetry must communicate something first of all through its rhythm and musicality;
• the need to convey an emotion without a direct statement, but indirectly, led him to work out his famous theory of the objective correlative (Montale);
• he advocated a kind of difficult and even obscure poetry since it had to change in order to describe the new situation of emptiness, pessimism, degradation and complexity of his contemporary world;
• he revalued the importance of tradition since past and present coexist in man and the past is an active part of the present (Joyce);
• he replaced the uselessly decorative rhetoric with clear, precise images, using the minimum number of words;
• he learnt from French Symbolists the use of free verse, to draw images from everyday life and to deflate the tragic through ironic and cynicism;
• he took from John Donne and the Metaphysicals their wit, their striking association of images and the complexity of their poetry;
• he turned to Dante as a model of all poetic art, establishing a relationship between the medieval inferno and modern life.