ABSTRACT
Yehuda Amichai has brought about a change in Hebrew poetry, within the transformation from the sublime to the mocking. Amichai creates poetry expressing modern humanity which accepts the burden of an existence without God. The figure in Amichai's work is, first, a means of expressing the feelings of the lyric persona; second, memories of the persona in constant movement; third, dynamic expression, creating kinetic transformations. The image of the lyric persona lies between situations of "activating" and "activated". From elements creating the "smoke" the lyric persona moves to describe the existential phenomenon of fear of death and the approach to it from the moment of birth. The persona is in the "no-man's land" and in a fragmented world of uncertainty and disappointment. Amichai functions through the object which has undergone a transformation as a means of conducting a dialogue with the absolute, rather than rejecting it or renouncing its existence.
