THE EXPRESSIVENESS OF LANGUAGE IN THE EROTIC LYRIC POETRY OF GRIGORE ALEXANDRESCU
THE EXPRESSIVENESS OF LANGUAGE IN THE EROTIC LYRIC POETRY OF GRIGORE ALEXANDRESCU

Summary/Abstract: The present study seeks to examine significant aspects concerning the expressive dimension of the erotic poetry written by the Romanian Romantic author Grigore Alexandrescu. The study underscores the presence of a broad range of metabole within the analyzed texts. The rhetorical character typical of early Romanian writers is particularly evident, achieved through enumeration and syntactic parallelism – most notably by means of double or triple anaphoric repetitions- and, more important, through frequent use of invocations and rhetorical questions. Alonngside structural figures, a considerable number of semantic figures are identified, among which the epithet- in its various forms: ornamental, personifying, metaphoric, synesthetic, pleonastic, cliched, contrasting and verbal- stands out, together with comparison, personification and metaphor. Through these devices, poetic ideas are refined and nuanced, enabling the reader to perceive the wide range of emotional states inspired by the feeling of love, which Grigore Alexandrescu so skillfully rendered in his verse.

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