Transformation Of Myth Into Poetic Discourse In Baudelaire: Dionysos
Abstract
In this study, the cognitive discourse of the poem Soul of the Wine (l'Ame du Vin) of
Baudelaire will be examined in the framework of Dionysos’s myth. We see that the poet
tells the adventure of the humanity through the adventure of wine making by making the
mythological god speak and using his story in the poem. The poet, with a sense of
symbolization peculiar to him, finds the chance to include his ideas about the humans in
his poems through the myth of wine. The subject of the poem utters the lines in the future
tense with using the words of Dionysos and implicating his goodwill in terms of deriving
benefits. Examining Baudelaire’s special grammar becomes a requirement in transferring
the myth into a different perception level and in these transferences which connect the
deep and surface structures. In this context, the poem will be examined by taking into
consideration whether the myth corresponds to its counterpart in the human cognition or
not. The cognitive discourse of Baudelaire’s poetry consists of depicting the human with
his simple, everyday concerns or telling the situations and the events that he witnesses in the vocabulary of the myth. As a poet, he evaluates the insensitive masses in terms of the
humanitarian values, he concentrates on total positive design principles and by activating
the readers’ prior knowledge, he writes his poems with metaphors coherent with the wine
signifier. He prefers the method in which he makes the readers find the truth through
myths by navigating them from the data available to unavailable. In conclusion, it can be
said that the myth of Dionysos forms the poetic discourse of Baudelaire.
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Details
Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Yavuz Kızılçim
Türkiye
Publication Date
April 21, 2016
Submission Date
April 1, 2016
Acceptance Date
April 20, 2016
Published in Issue
Year 2016 Number: 4