THE DIALECTICS OF LOVE AND LOSS IN THE POETRY OF ALEXANDER FEINBERG
Keywords:
emotional contradiction, lyrical experience, memory, longing, poetic tension, affective transformationAbstract
This article analyses the dynamic relationship between love and loss in the poetry of Alexander Feinberg. Based on a dialectical approach and qualitative textual analysis, the study explores how emotional tension shapes the lyrical structure of selected poems. The findings demonstrate that love and loss do not function as isolated states but appear as mutually transformative processes. Through symbolic contrasts, restrained tone, and imagery, the poet presents love as a fragile and changeable feeling, while memory becomes the force that preserves it. The study shows that the interconnection between love and loss in Feinberg’s poetry reveals the complex and multilayered nature of human experience.
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