Corolla of miracles by Lucian Blaga
original tite: Corola de minuni
The volume "Poems of Light" (1919) opens with a poetic art on the theme of knowledge, vision of the world and life, involving a philosophical system established by the "Trilogy of Knowledge". Within it, poetry, as an art of the word meant to express beauty, transcends aesthetic boundaries, moving towards deep reflection on the integration of man in the universe and thus revealing an expressionist vision.
The author, Lucian Blaga , is the communicative court of cognitive type that directly expresses its feelings through the lyrical self in the first person, in a subjective perspective: "because I love / and flowers and eyes and lips and graves".
At the structural level, the architecture of poetry is made up of two distinct parts of a broad comparison: thus, the concrete term is meant to suggest the abstract one. The poet transposes into lyric the two philosophical concepts, of paradisiacal and luciferic knowledge, opting for the latter.
At the paratext level, the title coincides with the first verse of the poem, suggesting the lyrical self's intention to "not crush", "not to kill", "not to strangle" and "not to shrink", emerging the attributes of the world that becomes " a corolla of miracles ”.
Within the poetic discourse, the hypotextual elements reveal that the lyrical self is in a communication with its own universe; this self-world is expressed by several key elements of the external world: "flowers, eyes, lips or graves". The metaphorical enumeration is preceded by the resumption of the copulative coordinated conjunction “and”, which distinguishes each term. The great mysteries are successively related to an element capable of producing revelation to the reader. "Flowers" become a symbol for the immeasurable plant universe, able to regenerate enigmatically; The "eyes" make the secret transition between the outer and the inner world; "Lips" mysteriously suggest both utterance and kissing, and "graves" include the nebula of death.
The metaphor of light refers to the possibility of constructing an imaginary universe, which would enrich the already existing one. The word "light" has, in L. Blaga, at least five meanings, that of conscience, creativity, revealing mysteries, communicating artistic messages and spiritualized love. All this is subordinated to a primary meaning: knowledge.
The lyrical self compares the effect of selenium light with the artistic illumination of the world - the light of the moon does not dispel the darkness of night, but increases the mystery, "it does not diminish, but trembles / magnifies even more the mystery of night."
In the end, the lyrical self justifies its own ability to enrich the experience of revealing mysteries, by the fact that it knows and "loves", so it identifies with all forms of manifestation of the concrete world. The lyrical discourse reveals, from the point of view of versification, the free verse, with variable metrics and the inner rhythm that reproduces the flow of ideas and the frenzy of poetic living.
