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dc.identifier	ECF_article_12281
dc.title	Gennadii Aigi’s Poetic Mysticism of Trees: on the Motif of Willows
dc.contributor.author	Stahl Henrieke
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/the-venice-journal-of-environmental-humanities/2023/1/gennadii-aigis-poetic-mysticism-of-trees-on-the-mo/
dc.description.abstract	Natural phenomena appear in almost every poem of Ajgi and develop a specific semiotics that evolves over the course of his career. Ajgi very often turns to trees. The trees are signatures of the speaker’s mutually changing relationship with nature and God. The mystical path to the experience of God takes place in transformations that can be traced by the changes in the poetic representation of the trees. As the willow-poems demonstrates, the mystical path to the experience of God in Ajgi’s work leads from the pantheistic and immanent to the Christian and transcendent.
dc.relation.ispartof	Lagoonscapes
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 3 \| Issue 1 \| June 2023
dc.issued	2023-07-03
dc.dateAccepted	2023-04-25
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-03-01
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2785-2709
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2023/01/005
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Gennadij Ajgi
dc.subject	Mysticism
dc.subject	Nature Poetry
dc.subject	Trees
dc.subject	Willows

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Gennadii Aigi’s Poetic Mysticism of Trees: on the Motif of Willows

Henrieke Stahl University of Trier, Germany

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abstract

Natural phenomena appear in almost every poem of Ajgi and develop a specific semiotics that evolves over the course of his career. Ajgi very often turns to trees. The trees are signatures of the speaker’s mutually changing relationship with nature and God. The mystical path to the experience of God takes place in transformations that can be traced by the changes in the poetic representation of the trees. As the willow-poems demonstrates, the mystical path to the experience of God in Ajgi’s work leads from the pantheistic and immanent to the Christian and transcendent.

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July 3, 2023

Accepted

April 25, 2023

Submitted

March 1, 2023

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Keywords: Nature Poetry • Mysticism • Trees • Willows • Gennadij Ajgi

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