In the world of thought Benn is the concept of "phenotypes" in the 1940s to a central role. If you want to understand the poetics Benn in their core, so before the Benn interpretation of the term "phenotype" is to clarify - even more so: their understanding is a prerequisite.
phenotype is known to be a term used in genetics, established by the Danes Johannsen. The phenotype is the individual of a particular epoch, the characteristic features of this period evidently expresses the same as this period is that it represents. [...] In addition to the phenotype, of course, run through all the ages are generally ephemeral types, those that do not bring the internal representation of the age expressed.
(From Double Life, p. 162)
Benn transformed here is a biological term for a poetics. He is interested not so much the appearance of an individual, but rather that of a whole era. The phenotype articulated so to speak, the essence of an era.
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