Prometeu în viziune romantică și neoromantică
Prometheus in a romantic and neo-romantic vision

Summary/Abstract: The Promethean vision of Shelley and Al. Philippides springs from the same Greeksource, Aeschylus and Hesiod, but, along the way, undergoes modifications,according to the face and likeness of each poet, in part, because the poets, putting onthe coat and the Promethean mask, and play differently, depending on the interiorof each one, rebelling – however, in unison, against any external and internalauthority or oppression, by borrowing the Promethean howl, to which they givedifferent valences. Shelley's tragic poem preserves the Greek heritage, the legenditself, to a point, for Shelley's verses are not a genealogical presentation but clothethemselves in self-consciousness and tragedy, in the four acts of the poem thatdeserve its title as a masterpiece. Shelley reserves a personal and imaginative viewof human nature: „The images I have used will be found in many illustrations, andhave been drawn from the processes of the human mind (...)” (our translation) of thefatality of life and destiny to which mortals are subjected to.

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