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KONCEPTI POPULLOR PËR TË BUKURËN NË LIRIKËN E DASHURISË
POPULAR CONCEPT ON THE BEAUTIFUL IN LOVE LIRICS

Author(s): Merita Gjokutaj-Shehu
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore
Published by: Instituti Albanologjik i Prishtinës
Keywords: POPULAR CONCEPT ; BEAUTY IN LOVE LYRICS

Summary/Abstract: Love is a human phenomenon connected with life, family, and continuation of species. In particular way, in love songs, more than anywhere comes out popular concept on the beauty as an ideal, as perfection, as a harmony between the inner and the extern, physical and spiritual beauty, on the beauty, the goodness and the wholesome. Love songs have great importance since in them is poured the great treasure of clean feelings of Albanians, in them is given peoples ideal about the female in a special way and about the family generally. To build physical portrait of a girl, popular poet creates her ideal image, using skillfully possibilities made by rich popular figuration. Popular rhetoric of love is expression of humans desire to build the individual and unrepeatable of own experiences in the level of a single type. Thus, the portrait of a girl is an image of idealized beauty consisting of totality of physical features codified poetically in harmony with a certain type of the worldview. By observing love songs we notice that people in them present the facts almost objectively, without condemning anyone and without taking sides, openly. People in their poesy is never neither moralist, neither fanatic. He stands beyond the events, beyond the phenomena, but it is not difficult to understand that he takes under protection a clear feeling of love even when it is disastrous for the individual or for environment, since for the people the voice of love is the voice of life. From artistic point love songs are among most figured. Expressive modes are also lyrical. As comparative elements we can often find flower, moon light, nightingale, pintail and not the lion, courageous, dragon. Comparisons, metaphors and epithets used both for the girl and the boy are the most beautiful, taken from the world of flower and farming, but there are no absent such metaphors that, from the outside seem hard, but inside them are hidden a great flame of feelings and playful spirit. Entire illustrative matter is harvested in a peasant atmosphere. They differ from inside since they reanimate a generally bucolic environment, simple one, without plenty of complication. The spontaneity and sincerity in these songs are obvious. They have a deep realism. It is an earthy love, not heavenly. We have a master usage of details, simplicity of structure, they have no kind of complication or haziness and from the way they are structured they are easily remembered.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 40
  • Page Range: 221-230
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Albanian
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