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The statements in Hans Faverey’s poems often seem to contradict each other: chrysanthemums are not chrysanthemums, and what exists turns out not to exist. That the disruption of logic also has ontological implications becomes plausible when one sees that the poet often refers to the pre-Socratic philosophers Parmenides, Zeno and Heraclitus. Using the concepts of metaphor, metonym, allegory, symbol and ritual, this article argues that many of Faverey’s poems can be interpreted as ontological allegories.
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