M. Heidegger about F. Gelderlin

In the present paper two articles of Heidegger about Gelderlin are analyzed. Philosopher called him poet of poets saying the following: Gelderlin reduced the poetry into the essence of the world, put it into the basis of history, became the medium between the world of gods and the world of men. Heidegger identified the main themes of Gelderlin' work: nature, sacred, holyday, poet. In the poem As in holiday… appearance of a peasant at arable land after a storm is described. He experienced the gladness that crops were not destroyed by the rain. Gelderlin called the nature divine and beautiful, oddly and omnipresent. Therefore, it possesses an incredible force, power and becomes the basis of the world of gods and the world of men preceding them and creating the conditions for their interaction. The word sacred in the text of Gelderlin is connected with daybreak, with coming of light. The word of the poet gives an opportunity for the nature to detach the existence from non-existence, called things from non-called. Sacred is the essence of nature. Men exist only when the sacred presents in his spirit. Poet is the sacred neighbour. He is happy when creating poems. Language is the goodness of the man. But this is dangerous goodness. Why is it so? Because it may lead to delusion and debasement. But it is also the gift to the man from nature, because the language is the basis of history. When the time appears, the history appears. The appearance of the world, history and language happened at the same time. Conversation, which is what we are, manifested itself in calling the gods and the world by men. Men did a lot for his existence. Hard work, living anxieties, labor efforts - all of this is a human activity. But this is not the most important for men. His essence is in the field of poetry. Poetry is the gift of gods. Poetry is primal for men. It does not use the language - it makes the language possible. Poet is the medium between the gods and the man. In such a manner poet realizes his destiny: to be the poetic being on this earth. Heidegger says, that Gelderlin was such a man. A philosopher pays attention to the danger of poet's creativity, because a poet may come to the irrational, disastrous sphere, as it was with Gelderlin. This state, as I think, reinforces his gifts, underlined by Heidegger, raising them to a higher degree

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