Dream Poems. The Surreal Conditions of Modernism

摘要

The article discusses three Swedish dream poems: Artur Lundkvist’s “Om natten ?lskar jag n?gon…” from Nattens broar (1936), Gunnar Ekel?f’s “Monolog med dess hustru” from Strountes (1955), and Tomas Transtr?mer’s “Dr?mseminarium” from Det vilda torget (1983). These authors and their poems all relate to European Surrealism. However, they do not only support the fundamental ideas of the Surrealist movement, they also represent reservations about, and corrections to, this movement. The article illuminates different aspects of dream poems and discusses the status of this poetic genre and its relation to Surrealism throughout the twentieth century.