On The Mystery Of Tomas Transtromer’s Poetry

The Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer was announced as the recipient of the2011Nobel Prize in Literature, which made people focus their attention on poetry again. In the pure beauty of poetry, the literature shows the timeless charm, while our modern society is cornered to the ultimate anxiety and fickleness by consumer culture. Therefore, people are lack of critical spirit. At this time, Transtromer’s poetry is an opportunity for us to regain peace and profundity. In his poems, we think about the eternity and mystery of the world. The sense of mystery is flowing in Transtromers poems, and it makes the world more fantastic, in which we regain our freedom.We want to know how can it be mysterious, so we need to have an overall grasp of the poems. With the help of other literature, we categorize all poems of Transtromer. The poems are divided into five formations according to the theme:nature, religion, dream, death and art, which all have something to do with mystery.Then we read the poems in detail, and find that Transtromer’s poems are mysterious.In the poems of nature, we see the vitality and even divinity of nature and feel that we must respect and fear nature; facing the expansion of industrial society, nature chooses to retreat in order to advance, as people always amplify their ambition and forget the eternity of nature; nature also tries to change people’s mind, to free them from the chains of industrial society and to make the world more colorful.In the poems of religion, God is the reason that the world exists, but he doesn’t show himself in it; the church and the bell often become the revelations of God, and something sacred perhaps has come to the poet; the cross means suffering, and the doctrine of Original Sin also has an impact on Transtromer. Dream is a favorite theme in Transtromer’s poetry. There’s always something mysterious attempting to enter the poet’s mind before falling asleep; the content of dream disclose the truth we can’t see in real life, which is absurd but paradoxical; before waking up, people are still entrapped by dream, and they’ll find the fraudulence of real life.Dream is an approach to be enlightened.The shadow of death is going with Transtromer the whole time. Death is undying, and it swallows everything; death is a shelter, which keeps us from trouble and come back to the real one; in Transtromer’s eyes, there’s no specific line between life and death, they can change into each other. Transtromer is not praising death, he insists that we should live a rich life before dying. All sorts of art affect Transtromer a lot. In art, people pass through walls which separate them from each other; the inspiration in art is mysterious too; the same as nature, art has the power to cure people, and to save us from desperation.Through the poetry of Transtromer, we see the suppression in material life and spiritual life, which leads us to criticize.One way to resist is to experience this world in mystery manner. Once we see the fantastic world, the memory will return again and again, and we gain the weapon to fight against the oppressive reality.