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The Influence of Greek Literature and Culture in the Naim Frasheri’s Poem “O Eros”



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Blerina Harizaj (Moja)

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2018.02.013

Academy of Albanological Studies, Tirane, Albania

This article focused on the influence that culture and ancient Greek literature had on the lyrical poem “O Eros” (“Love”), a poem by the poet of the Albanian national renaissance, Naim Fresheri. This poem written in the Greek language speaks about love and the big importance that philosophy, history, and the ancient Greek literature had in his life. The poem was published for the first time in Istanbul 1895 and its part of the phase when he wrote in the foreign languages. From the culture and Greek literature, Naim Frasheri borrowed culture, philosophy, history and Greek mythology representatives (figures), topics, ideas and even motifs. He used them for poetical, philosophical, and historical purposes. It’s worth mentioning that the evocation of the ancient Greek world in his poetical works gave a lot of values to his experience as a creator. In his poem “O Eros” he addresses to love, and the absolute beauty, incarnated in the figures of Greek goddess like: Kaliope, Aphrodite, Artemis, Demetria and Urania etc. In his meditative road trip the poet to discover the mysteries of the universe and they will accompany him till the divine wayward, in the amazing residency of God. There where the power of thinking melts, the mysteries get widespread and because of God the entire universe it’s alive. The love for the poet beyond the limits of humanity, it’s something divine, the embodiment of God himself. It is love that brings it closer to the internal truth, that God is the source of life, love and universe. The message that the poem convey, “Love”, it’s a divine message as well as universal, that claims that life without no love has no sense and that is this feeling that keeps alive not only humanity but even the world. In this work I will focus mainly on style, figurative system, Greek mythological figures and also the way, the poet artistically conceptualize the work. The method that it’s going to be used is that of comparison referring the terminology of the scholar (researcher) Itamar Zohar. In conclusion, we notice that the notion of the interference brings to us another point of view regarding to Naim’s work, the point of view of the ancient poetical Greek tradition. 

Naim, Frasheri, Greek literature, Eros, goddess