IMAGES OF WOMAN IN HEINRICH HEINE’S POETRY AND THEIR RECEPTION IN ROMANIAN TRANSLATIONS
IMAGES OF WOMAN IN HEINRICH HEINE’S POETRY AND THEIR RECEPTION IN ROMANIAN TRANSLATIONS

Summary/Abstract: In his poetry, Heinrich Heine presents the woman both as an untouchable ideal, pure, naïve and beautiful – like in his early poems of ‘Buch der Lieder’ – and as a prostitute, driven only by her sexual instincts – especially in the cycle of poems ‘Verschiedene’ from ‘Neue Gedichte.’ If for the ‘Buch der Lieder’ poems he used as a source of inspiration his spiritual love for Amalia, who did not share his feelings, thus tragically marking his entire existence, the ‘Verschiedene’ poems – wrote in the first years after settling in Paris – are all love poems dedicated to the women with whom the poet experienced sensual love, and thus reflecting the life experience of a mature Heine. This dualism helps us understand and better perceive the woman’s image in Heine’s poems, an image that corresponds entirely to the 19th century woman: devoted mother and wife but with a strong erotic side, and scarlet woman, both victim of sexual exploitation, and a financial ruin of men.

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