Night, Death and Love in the Poetics of Sí¶dergran and Pizarnik

Abstract

Modern poetry derives directly from Romanticism. Despite the known impact received by the avant garde movements, the poetry of the twentieth century shows many -if not all- motives developed by romantic poetry in a constant pendular movement between tradition and innovation. Through a comparative analysis, this article will review different romantic motives and their presence in the poetics of avant-garde Finnish poet, Edith Sí¶dergran (1892-1923), and Alejandra Pizarnik
(1936-1972), Argentinian, surrealist poet at first and then a voice of her own. Despite their coming from different countries, languages, and literary traditions, the work of these two women poets shows remarkable similarities.