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Ogrody Charosa. Ogród i Śmierć w wybranych utworach poezji nowogreckiej

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Borowska M.

Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

2011

issue 1(4)

119-134

The author concentrates upon the symbolic connection between the Garden and the Death in Modern Greek culture and literature beginning with the real garden of Empress Sissy, Achilleion, which after the tragic death of her son prince Rudolph underwent a sudden change from locus amoenus to a cemetery-like hermitage. Then the author passes on to Missolunghi Heroon to analyse Kostis Palamas’s poem Young Girl on the tomb of Marcus Botsaris (He Pedoula) full of motifs and allusions both to the ancient learned tradition and to the Modern Greek folk-songs. The traditional popular image of the Other World is clearly akin to the one known from the Homeric epic, a Medieval Byzantine poem Digenis Akritas or a Cretan Renaissance katabasis poem Apokopos by Bergadis. It finds its most original realization in the Greek folk songs −moirologia, where the popular imagination has created highly emotional descriptions of the horrible garden of Charos − Death, where deceased children “grow” as flowers, dead youths as trees and elders serve as its fence.

Penelopa w poezji nowogreckiej XX wieku (Penelope in Modern Greek 20th century Poetry)

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Bzinkowski M.

Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae

2015

vol. 25

issue 2

119-136

In my paper I focus on the well-known Greek mythical as well as literary figure, known mainly from Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus’ faithful wife, Penelope. Attention is given to the interpretation of the Homeric prototype in Modern Greek 20th century poetry. The successive metamorphoses of the image of Penelope are traced in Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Odyssey, Yiannis Ritsos’ Penelope’s Despair, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke’s Says Penelope, Kyriakos Charalambides’ Penelope Recognizes Odysseus, Penelope’s Odysseusand Pandelis Boukalas’ Penelope. The analysis shows ambiguous attitude to the traditional image of Penelope and tendency of Modern Greek poets to demythologize her and to show the scene of anagnorisis in Homer‘s Odyssey in modern context as well as with more psychological probability.

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Ogrody Charosa. Ogród i Śmierć w wybranych utworach poezji nowogreckiej

Penelopa w poezji nowogreckiej XX wieku (Penelope in Modern Greek 20th century Poetry)