ייסורי 'הסינתזה האנושית הגדולה': דיאלקטיקה של אי-הכרעה ביצירת לאה גולדברג

The paper proposes a description of the distinctive texture of Lea Goldberg's work: a quick alternation between contradictory emotions and values that induces a particular ambivalence. I call this poetics 'Oscillating Dialectics'. It strives for a kind of completeness, towards a synthesis of contradictions, but the synthesis is never reached. No transcendent unity subsumes the contradictions, the works remains oscillating between its poles. The first part of the paper analyzes the poem 'White Days' (Yamim Levanim) in order to describe the psycho-esthetic stance of the poetess through a concrete example. I show that this stance is manifested at the level of ideas, of values and of prosody. Many of Goldberg's poems, over the course of her writing years, are founded on the model of 'multistability in perception' effect (the Duck/ Rabbit or the Necker cube riddle paintings). In the second part of the paper, with reference to further examples, I show Goldberg's poetry as characterized by the painful illusion of the necessity of choice, and the conscious rejection of the transcendental.