Keywords
Catechetic poetics
Mystical awakening
Community
Walt Whitman–Derek Walcott
How to Cite
Abstract
The person belongs to an event that outlines the form of an instant here, now; where the metamorphosis of places and stories de-personalizes the place into an elsewhere and time fluidifies into an indeterminacy of ages and an ou-topical history, making the person linked to the finding of himself in what American poetry has identified as a haunted sky, I-divided, emphasis of command: the perception becomes, redemptively, generational palingenesis, unity of archetypal presence, but also inspiration to a collective call of disenchantment, to rediscover the traces of a pastoral sense of mystical awakening, possible in community catechesis of historical witness and belonging to a place declined to the present, where also memory, anthropological protection and ontological guarantee of the past, is a safeguard clause of the present.
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