TUDOR ARGHEZI DESPRE NAȘTEREA MISTICĂ ÎNTR-UN POEM INEDIT DIN ANII 1948-1950
MYSTICAL BYRTH IN AN UNPUBLISHED POEM OF TUDOR ARGHEZI (DATED BETWEEN 1949-1950)

Summary/Abstract: The University “Vasile Goldiş” in Arad holds a corpus of manuscripts by Tudor Arghezi, with many unpublished works dating from 1948-1953, the writer’s period of prohibition, after the installation of the Communist regime. Among these manuscripts there is a religious poem entitled Akathist, a salutation to the Virgin Mary. The lyrical situation in the poem seems a strange one: the poet’s attempt to identify himself with the one who gave birth to Jesus Christ. The poet’s drama lies in his difficulty, turned into impossibility, of giving birth to Christ – which, metaphorically, means his inability of confessing and recognizing him. The poem Akathist is a prayer for Virgin Mary to deliver the poet from this eclipse of his faith.

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