Between war and lyric: the fragmented self in "Acabada a segunda guerra mundial"

Abstract

The article analyzes the poem "Acabada a segunda guerra mundial", by Golgona Anghel, highlighting how the self-portrait constructed within it breaks with the confessional and lyrical tradition. The text reveals the persistence of war ruins as a metaphor for contemporary precariousness, crisis, and instability, intertwining official voices, irony, and fragmentation. From the theoretical basis, it shows that the poetic self emerges as decentered, traversed by external discourses and by the failure of language. Thus, the poem configures a critical and unstable self-portrait that displaces the notion of identity and re-signifies historical and subjective experience.