THE POETRY OF PINTER’S THEATRE

Abstract

The essay concentrates upon the poetic quality of Pinter’s plays. Lyric inspiration in fact never left Pinter, not even in his older years when it was successfully transformed and infused into the monlogues and dialogues of his dramatis personae. Pinter’s poetic arsenal includes the impressive metaphors and images created by means of both traditional and modern stylistic devices, the latter often belonging to the sphere of unspeakable. The poetry of Pinter’s theatre fuses the heritage of imagism and surrealism and the poetic achievements of Beckettian theatre of absurd. Although its intensity and quality varies in the body of Pinter’s plays, it considerably contributes to their artistic strength.