FOLKLORIC ELEMENTS IN THE LYRICAL WORK OF EMIL BOTTA
FOLKLORIC ELEMENTS IN THE LYRICAL WORK OF EMIL BOTTA

Summary/Abstract: The folklore and the very history of our people is a source of inspiration and it seems that "poems are mentally polished to be written at once”. Poetry of the coordinates of existence (life and death, truth and beauty), Emil Botta's lyrical work evokes the emergence of profound and generally valid questions, which arouse signs of doubt and the impulse to try to unravel them. Starting from the idea that the poet is obviously more familiar with the nocturnal elements than with those given by the daylight, with the seasons than with the days, with the mountains than with the city environment, with the legendary life than with the daily one, with death than with living life itself, it can be said that Emil Botta's poetry envelops the reader with musicality, using a language that seems innate and uttered without mistake, with unique associations of words, exclamations and confessions. His poetic originality is given by the use of dissolved elements from a personal lyric, in which only folkloric expressions still retain some independence, through pleasures from folk tales, especially related to certain archaic heresies.

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