Saghi Farahmandpour; Mohammad Ziar
Volume 15, Issue 20 , April 2018, , Pages 139-155
Abstract
So far, many have interpreted Noah's flood poem written by Alfred de Vigny. Most commentators have considered the themes of this poem influenced by the horrific events and frustrations of Vigny's personal and social lives, without focusing on the basis of the poem itself. The main purpose of this paper ...
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So far, many have interpreted Noah's flood poem written by Alfred de Vigny. Most commentators have considered the themes of this poem influenced by the horrific events and frustrations of Vigny's personal and social lives, without focusing on the basis of the poem itself. The main purpose of this paper is to use the Heidegger's phenomenology to focus on the poem itself and to interpret its theme, i.e., unkindness of God, anger of nature, tear and the outburst as an integral part of the foundational essence of human existence. Noah's flood poem is a poem related to the human existence.
This poem describes a human being that does not escape from the confrontation with two phenomena of emancipation and anxiety rooted in his human position and achieves individuality. Such a human being loves freedom free from any outside authority and show outburst.