Természeti szimbólumok Áprily Lajos és Bengt Pohjanen verseiben
Nature Symbols in The Poems of Lajos Áprily and Bengt Pohjanen

Summary/Abstract: In this study, I examine the way natural surrounding is mirrored in the poems of two Finno-Ugric poets, Lajos Áprily, one of the main representatives of the so-called Transilvanist movement in Romania, and Bengt Pohjanen, the best known Meänkieli poet, writer and language activist living in Sweden, in the Torne Valley. Both of them were trying to connect their own and their language group’s identity to safety-promising factors in the midst of an ever changing political situation. One of these factors is their close homeland with its specific features. I am especially interested in how natural landscape becomes moral value in their works. The disharmony between the negative cause (being forced to a minority existence) and the positive eff ect (dedicated tendency to preserve their own language and culture), is evident with both of them, as well as the fact that they finally dissolve this disharmony into poetry.

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