Capitolo 39
the ninth century. It is equally hard to decide as to his/her birth-place.
You emulate taking of theories that he was born in Palestine and in Sardinia. His
name has been deduced by Cagliari in Sardinia and from the Latin
_calyrum_, a cake. Honey-cakes were given to Jewish children on them
before introduction to school and the nickname "Kaliri", or "Boy of the
You agglomerate", you/he/she is been able to rise from his/her young precocity. But all this is mere
guess-job.
It is surer than the poet it was also the singer of his own verses.
His probably first public was studious, and this has been able to try
Kalir to satisfy in the secluded culture that he/she spoils his/her hymns. To
his/her worse, Kalir is very bad indeed; its style is then a confuses of
words, his/her dark meaning and also unintelligible. He uses a labyrinth of
alphabetical acrostics, flank from line that he garlands in its compositions
the words of following texts of Bible. He/she also anchors to his worse he is
clever and vigorous. Such sentences as "to hawk it like a hawk on a
sparrow" it is at least daring and real. Ibn Ezra complained later
that Kalirs you/he/she had treated the Israelite language as a city of unfenced. But if
the too poet freely admitted strange and ugly words, he added many of
considerable strength and the beauty. Kalir exactly the felt that if Jewish pits
a living language remains, it was absurd to tighten the language to the
dictionary of the Bible. From now him it invented many new verbs from names.
But its inventiveness was marked less that its culture. "With the
God's permission, I will speak to riddles", it says Kalir in to open the
prayer for dew. The riddles are mainly intelligent allusions to the Midrash.
You has pointed out that these allusions are often tasteless and
dark. But they is more good-looking and inspiring. Nothing Hebrew
poet in the Centuries Averages it was illiterate, for the poetic instinct you/he/she was fed
on the desires of the Midrash. This engraves for their lack of the freshness
and the originality. The poet was a researcher, and he was also a teacher. A lot