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Hermeticism in poetry, or hermetic poetry, is a form of obscure and difficult poetry, as of the Symbolist school, wherein the language and imagery are subjective, and where the suggestive power of the sound of words is as important as their meaning.〔Cf. F. Ebeling, ''The secret history of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from ancient to modern times'' (Transl. D. Lorton), Cornell University Press, 2007〕 The name alludes to the mythical Hermes Trismegistus, supposed author of mystic doctrines composed in the Neoplatonic tradition. Hermeticism was influential in the Renaissance, after the translation of these Neoplatonic texts by Marsilio Ficino. Within the Novecento Italiano, Hermetic poetry became an Italian literary movement in the 1920s and 1930s, developing between the two world wars. Major features of this movement were reduction to essentials, abolishment of punctuation, and brief, synthetic compositions, at times resulting in short works of only two or three verses. ==Terminology== The term ''ermetismo'' was coined in Italian by literary critic Francesco Flora (although with a very generic and superficial connotation) in 1936 and recalls a mystic conception of the poetic word because it makes reference to the legendary figure of Hermes Trismegistus (''Thrice-Great Hermes'') going back to hellenistic times, with writings such as ''Asclepius'' and the ''Corpus Hermeticum'' attributed to him.〔Hermes Trismegistus is described in the Corpus Hermeticum in a Euhemerist fashion, as a man who became a god, or as a man who was the son of a god. During the Renaissance it was accepted that Hermes Trismegistus was a contemporary of Moses, however after Casaubon’s dating of the Hermetic writings as no earlier than the second or third century CE, the whole of Renaissance Hermeticism collapsed. Cf. W. J. Haanegraaff, ''New Age Religion and Western Culture'', Brill, Leiden, New York, 1996, p.390〕 During the same year (1936), Italian poet Carlo Bo published an essay on the literary magazine ''Frontespizio'', by the title "Letteratura come vita (Literature as a way of life)", containing the theoretical-methodological fundamentals of hermetic poetry. On the literary plane, the term ''Hermeticism'' thus highlights a type of poetry which has a ''close'' (i.e., ''hermetic'', hidden, sealed)〔Cf. ''Hermetic'' on (Dictionary.com )〕 character, complex in its construction and usually achieved by a sequence of analogies difficult to interpret. At the movement's core—which was modelled after the great French decadentist poets Mallarmé, Rimbaud and Verlaine—was a group of Italian poets, called ''hermeticists'', who followed the style of Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hermeticism (poetry)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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