Religious metaphor and its denial in the poetry of Yehuda Amichai.

Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought | June 22, 2004| | Copyright

THE POETRY OF YEHUDA AMICHAI (1924-2000) IS ON one level a critical revaluation of Judaism. The loss of faith and the denial of religious metaphor illumine the discontent that hurt him into poetry. Cut adrift from Jewish orthodoxy, prone to difficulties in human relations, writing in a relatively affluent, materialist, secular society, Amichai sought a new basis for existence in or through poetry.

What does the denial of religious metaphor achieve? Degeneration into absurdity? An incapacity to imagine a world with satisfying richness? Or a higher consciousness of the ...

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