''Jääpeili'' is a 1928 poetry collection by Finnish poet

Aaro Hellaakoski Aaro Hellaakoski (June 22, 1893 – November 23, 1952) was a Finnish poet whose work includes some of the earliest examples of modernism in Finnish literature. Hellaakoski was born in Oulu. By profession he was a geographer conducting studies in ...

, considered by contemporary Finnish literature critics to be one of his best works.

Overview

The poetry's innovative pictorial typography in the poems "Sade" and "

Dolce far niente (literally 'sweetness fdoing nothing, sweet idleness') is an Italian saying. See also * Critique of work * ''Dolce far niente'' (poem) * Idleness * Ennui * ''Sehnsucht () is a German noun translated as "longing", "desire", "yearning" ...

" recalled Apollinaire's ''Calligrammes'' (1918); "Sade" especially recalls his "Il pleut", and both are classified as

visual poetry Visual poetry is a style of poetry that incorporates graphic and visual design elements to convey its meaning. This style combines visual art and written expression to create new ways of presenting and interpreting poetry. Visual poetry focuses on ...

. Other sources of inspiration for the poems were extracted from

Cubism Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement which began in Paris. It revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and sparked artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture. Cubist subjects are analyzed, broke ...

and the works of the Italian poet F.T. Marinetti, writer of the Manifeste du futurisme (1912). Hellaakoski's enthusiasm about urban visual landscape is present in the poems that also had connections with the youthful

romanticism Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. The purpose of the movement was to advocate for the importance of subjec ...

of other Finnish writers such as

Mika Waltari Mika Toimi Waltari (; 19 September 1908 – 26 August 1979) was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel ''The Egyptian'' (). He was extremely productive. Besides his novels he also wrote poetry, short stories, crime novels, plays, ...

and

Olavi Paavolainen Olavi Paavolainen (17 September 1903 – 19 July 1964) was a Finnish writer, essayist and poet. He was one of the prominent figures of the literary group Tulenkantajat (″The Flame Bearers″), and one of the most influential Finnish writers of ...

References

External links and sources

* *http://www.hs.fi/juttusarja/kritiikinklassikot/artikkeli/Aaro+Hellaakoski+J%C3%A4%C3%A4peili+Runoja/1135223001685 1928 poetry books Finnish poetry collections {{finland-stub