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Mesianismul poeziei lui Aron Cotruş
The Messianic Character of Aron Cotrus ' Poetry

Author(s): Dănuța Magdalena Pruneanu
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Universitatea »1 Decembrie 1918« Alba Iulia
Keywords: „Gândirea”, metaphor, religious, orthodoxist, symbol

Summary/Abstract: Ion Dodu Bălan sees Aron Cotruş „Phonix bird which even frightened of a renewed riod, was fallen deep in a strange self-denial in the dark fire of forgetfulness, and she managed to reborn with the most valuable part of his creation from own ash. Known as a writer, who promoted since the beginning for the pain of the others, Aron Cotrus published lyrics which denote an ideology based on truth. Considered ,,a prometheus personality, though closely interlinked and uncomfortable of the cuffs of the time and space”, Aron Cotrus, collaborated since the first number of the magazine Gandirea. Beating wire, the poet undertook partial contacts with the traditionalist magazine, even if, size of his poem, with a strong messianic character which denote not only the promotion of the social and national element, but vision and vitalism. Aron Cotrus’s poem send to a strong and dynamic temperament, by born lyrics “not in associates of refinements sound but in points of explosion in which tension mind fall apart and the thin logical thread of life remais to carry forward the contact. The earthly soul of the Cotrus’ poem imposes symbolically in the romanian lyrical landscape become metaphorically “a huge stone mountain” compatible of “promethean personalities, though closely interlinked and uncomfortable of the cuffs of the time and space, of which he wants, willed boundless, to be free. Retrieved the Perspessicius’s idea, Ion Dodu Balan stressed that Aron Cotrus’s poem is still alive “the destiny of a lion from Numidia, closed in a cage with bars of a roman circus. Or to come down with eagles in Dacia, the fate of a bald tethered eagle on a rock of a seigniorial park”. The poet remains gandirist by subterfuges of his lyrics which send deep to metaphor pain contras from the perspective of the knower in the stormy landscape of the inland history. Aron Cotrus’s religiosity is contraged of messianism of his poems and not necessary from content ideas. Structured political background, Cotrus’s poem allows presence of reminiscences of religious deduced stylistic level of the depth text, where overpass the petrifaction symbol and metaphor pain, shouted triumphantly in messianic poem.

  • Issue Year: 15/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 169-178
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian