THE POETRY OF A FLOWER OF EVIL
THE POETRY OF A FLOWER OF EVIL
Author(s): Margareta OnofreiSubject(s): Aesthetics, Lexis, Semantics, Croatian Literature, French Literature, Romanian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: ugliness; beauty; art; evil; good;
Summary/Abstract: The two poets, Charles Baudelaire and Tudor Arghezi, demonstrate that ugliness can generate beauty through literary creation. This article focuses on the following aspects: the depiction of the actions of the three guests of a poem, the aesthetic points of view concerning the relation between beauty and ugliness/ good and evil, the analysis of two poems, "To the Readers", by Charles Baudelaire and "Flowers of Mold", by Tudor Arghezi. In conclusion, evil is a productive aesthetic category mainly expressed by the lexico-semantic level of the language.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 12
- Page Range: 716-721
- Page Count: 6
- Language: Romanian