Un A journey towards silence in four poems from Echo´s bones

Abstract

The four poems selected from Echo's bones (1933): "Dortmunder", "Da Tagte Es", "Alba" and "The Vulture" allow us to recognize, already in that period of poetic youth of Samuel Beckett, a kind of manifesto. Well, in these poems lies a first reflection on poetry and the language that constitutes it. Silence being the limit and the port of arrival, this work is proposed as an approach to that Beckett's philosophical thought and, more specifically, to his poetry. It should also be noted that the critical influence of Blanchot, as well as that of Mautner and even that of the philosopher Wittgenstein, provided a basis for achieving greater depth in the article. The analysis is complemented by the development, comparison and difference of each poem. Likewise, the grammatical and comparativist approach allow a greater expansion of them. We start from the hypothesis that these four poems reveal the first concerns about language, and therefore, about being, as a linguistic being. Since each poem offers a different journey of the poetic "I" in relation to language, art and existence.