Ursprache and Poetry

 The notion of Ursprache, a primordial language that supposedly spoke human beings, presupposes a monogenesis of the different languages ​​of our species. This unity of origin hides the communicative plurality on which animal emotional communication is based. Only if we think that what the first human beings spoke is the result of a divine gift that established a discontinuity in the communications of life with life, would such a monogenesis be of interest to philosophical study. Otherwise, that first human language would be just one more element in a sequence of events that led and continues to lead to increasingly complex forms of human communication and psychological development.

The basic emotions would then be a proto-Ursprache, which could, in turn, be referred to more basic forms of organic and cellular communication. We communicate emotions, and not only between organisms of our species: life is understood with life through basic emotions, and they are a fundamental tool for the organism's relationship with the group, and the group with the environment.

Poetry is born from this vital communicative need, as a vehicle that perfects it through rhythm and form, thus connecting with the cyclical processes of the organism and memory. More complex and content-rich communications outlined the basic images of survival in new molds until they became something else, an emerging abstract emotional object in which our psyche found new fields for its development. Over the centuries, old emotions were chained into increasingly sophisticated emotional sequences, which not only reflected our life as humans but also expanded and created it: life itself began to imitate poetry, to believe in its worlds. and bring them into everyday life, updating potential emotion models.

The chaining of emotional sequences has led to the creation of condensed melodies that involve the subtle construction of experiential objects, or if you prefer, emotional landscapes in whose harmonic richness of sophisticated relationships entire generations of human beings resonate, bringing together the various particular languages ​​thanks to the emotional artistic construction of poetry, making all the others that were ever spoken fractally resonate in a single language.

The path from the ecstasies of the shaman, through the old Dionysian Evohé and other lyrical outbursts of divine enthusiasm decanted in the journey of the ages, is nothing more than a section of a path that literally sinks its roots in the language of life conquering its own medium among the stars. The poetic sequences of our time have been condensed according to the awareness of this development, and today the human voice is the fruit of a long and painful awakening to an identity yet to be made, like that of the universe itself. An unfathomable river pushes the soul of unfading life towards its feat: the vitalization of the inert. A new kind of poetry, always waiting to be done, proclaims its ancestral right to be its tool.