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This paper focuses on two Mediterranean poets of different backgrounds, namely the Greek poet Odysseas Elytis and the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet, aims at comparing their divergent worldviews. Our exploration will focus on the poets’ relationship with language, nature, the metaphysical feeling and Eros. Through this circumnavigation of flavours and sensations we will study how the Dionysian and the Apollonian spirit, the opulence of the East and the concept of the minimal, Western rationalism and Eastern mysticism converge and diverge. At the same time, we will attempt to identify those distinctive features that express the contemporary Greek cultural model in the work of Odysseas Elytis and the oriental spirit in the work of Nazim Hikmet. We will also trace a certain resonance from Eastern philosophy within the Greek mindset and vision.

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