POETRY AS THE ESSENCE OF LANGUAGE. PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE POETIC WORD

The main purpose of this article is the critique of the positivist thesis that, first, considers language to be an instrument at our disposal, and, second, subordinates poetry, understood as a sublime mode of language, to language. In contrast to this linguistic positivism, we present a phenomenology of the poetic word that allows us to achieve a more ontological understanding of this word as truth, aletheia. In the original word of poetry, being becomes word, is unveiled. Poetry, then, no longer presupposes the existence of language, but is the essence of language itself The poetic word is the first word, language in its truth. Poetry is not sublime language; rather, language is essentially poetic.