Dienstag, 29. September 2009

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29.09.2009 - Interpretation of dali48   

In one of his most significant poems Seferis describes a dream in which a marble head - too heavy for his arms, yet impossible to push aside - fell upon him at the moment of awakening - It is in this state of mind that he sings the praise of the dead, for only communication with the dead conversing on their asphodel meadows can bring to the living a hope of peace, confidence, and justice! - In Seferis's interpretation the story of the Argonauts becomes a parable halfway between myth and history - a parable of oarsmen who must fail before they reach their goal - But Seferis animates this background of melancholy resignation -  with the eloquent joy inspired in him by his country's mountainous islands - with their whitewashed houses rising in terraces above an azure sea - a harmony of colours that we find again in the Greek flag... (G. Seferis, Pres. Sp. 1963)

His wide travels provide the backdrop and colour for much of Seferis's writing - which is filled with the themes of alienation, wandering, and death... (G. Seferis, Biography 1963)

They (legends) make us realize - that throughout the ages the same attitudes toward work, suffering, joy, love, and death persisted without change... (G. Seferis, Nobel Lec. 1963)


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