A Hermeneutic-Linguistic Approach to the Poetry of R.M. Rilke

Abstract

This article offers a hermeneutic-linguistic approach to poetic text that combines achievements of linguistics, hermeneutics, cognitive linguistics and poetics. The poetic word and the poetic concept are investigated through the poetic concept ‘God’ in the poetry of the Austrian poet of 20th century R.M. Rilke. The study is based on distinguishing between sense, meaning and concept. The study technique includes: concordance, predicate’s analysis and categorization, hermeneutical circle, interpretation.

Keywords: “Book of Hours”, concept, concordance, crystallization, dispersion, hermeneutics, interpretation, meaning, mega-sense, poetic word, Rilke, sense