Mircea Horia Simionescu and poetry seen as literary manifest [Mircea Horia Simionescu si poezia vazuta ca manifest literar]

In this paper, we propose to offer a general view of the vision the writer Mircea Horia Simionescu has on writing, the place and role of poetry in the XXIst century society, in other words, new definitions of poetic art in a contemporary manner. As a methodology, we chose to analyse some of his lyrical works through which the author suggests a new manner of writing and approaching poetry which he still sees blocked in the rigors of classical rules. The writer from Târgoviºte proposes, in his lyrical work, a stripping of poetry, its exit from old canons. Once we have established the ideas which the writer wants to present to his readers with this new version of writing poetry, we analyze common themes that we find both in the writer’s poetry, and in his epic works. This new option of lyrical writing gets poetry closer to the story, it equivocates the text’s message and gives the reader the freedom of interpretation. The ambiguity of the message, the lack of punctuation and capitalization, we find in Mircea Horia Simionescu’s poetry: the author’s playful and serios spirit, the ingenuity of poetic formula, its subtlety, the intellectualism and vulgarity of the sententious and bitter poetic language, the intertextuality, the playful fantasizing, the irony, the valorisation of the oridnary, all will support the return of poetry to the reality of the city and the street by the detoxification of traditional rules.