DYNAMICS OF THE CHROMATIC TERM YELLOW IN THE LYRICAL POETRY OF MIHAI EMINESCU
DYNAMICS OF THE CHROMATIC TERM YELLOW IN THE LYRICAL POETRY OF MIHAI EMINESCU

Summary/Abstract: With this paper we intend to bring forward the dynamics of the chromatic term yellow in the lyrical poetry of Mihai Eminescu. The corpus that we will utilize has been created through the excerpt of significant contexts from The dictionary of poetic language of Eminescu, supervised by Dumitru Irimia. In order to establish a relevant representation of the linguistic and semantic units of the colour yellow, utilized in the whole lyrical poetry of Eminescu, in our analysis we will consider both the poems published during the life of the author and the ones published after the death of the author. We will attempt to illustrate that the colour yellow shifts its meaning depending on the context, and it becomes a dual element, a semantic polarisation, acquiring both positive and negative values. We will notice that in some contexts the colour yellow maintains itself in the denotative meaning, situated at a descriptive level. In other contexts it refers to the multiple dimensions of the connotative meaning. Therefore, with this study, we aim to pursue and analyse the defining structures utilized in the lyrical poetry of Eminescu, in which the chromatic term yellow is used. We will take into account in our research the use of other terms, such as blonde, gold, golden, pale, wax etc., by Eminescu in alternation with the primary chromatic term white. After we identify its own contextual significance of this colour and illustrate it through a few selected sequences, we will classify the structures in which the chromatic term yellow is used and we will also interpret them from a semantic and stylistic point of view.

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