ABSTRACT
This chapter considers an introductory reading of Heidegger's Identity and Difference—a text that gives us the central set of ideas that provides the basis for the discussion. In Identity and Difference, Heidegger continues to develop some of the key terms and concepts that make up the core of his later philosophy after the Turn. Transtromer's poetry, which, together with Heidegger's later thinking, is the main concern in the chapter. When examining the possible influence of poetic traditions on Transtromer's poetry, however, one believe it to be fruitful to go back earlier than the Modernist poetry of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound to consider such post-Romantic poetry as the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud. Moreover, and of importance to the reading, Transtromer's closeness to Rimbaud's poesie objective leads to a consideration of the concept of identity and poetry. The chapter discusses Heidegger's warning to his readers at the outset of Identity and Difference.
