Un viaggio al di là delle parole: l’attraversamento dei confini poetici di Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Abstract

This article explores the way in which Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin uses perception and perspective in her poetry to transcend the boundaries that separate reality from the worlds of imagination, folklore and spirituality, with a particular interest in colour and the visual. It will also be argued that language is one of the fundamental tools the poet uses to analyse the otherness and the difference between contrasting dimensions, and that the margin that divides them is a significant space in itself. The texts examined belong to different phases of the author's career in order to emphasise the presence of these nuances of thought throughout her literary production.