THE FEMININE SPIRIT OF WATER
THE FEMININE SPIRIT OF WATER

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to trace the feminine side of the imagination of water as it appears in poetry. Water is usually associated with the feminine principle, the maternal principle, the subconscious, the dark side or the obscurity of the feminine psychic powers, and last but not least, with the depths of the human mind. A great variety of writers let water organize their imagination, creativity and art. Feeling its feminine characteristics, poets animate the waters of the soul with their stirring, fluid imagination. This paper looks at just one side of the metaphoric richness of water: its feminine side. But this side has many facets, all of them being supported by extraordinary figures of speech and extremely beautiful images emerging from the great collective cultural and historical reservoir of structures.

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