FACETS OF PERSONIFIED LOVE IN ROMANIAN AND ENGLISH POETRY
FACETS OF PERSONIFIED LOVE IN ROMANIAN AND ENGLISH POETRY

Summary/Abstract: This work discusses some of the ways in which the concept of love is personified in the Romanian and English poetry of the 18th and 19th century, focusing on imagined gender. Romanian poets make extensive use of synonymy in order to resolve potential conflicts between grammatical and imagined gender, as well as between grammatical gender and cultural archetype; nevertheless, the correlation between grammatical and imagined gender remains low. On the other hand, English poetry shows both lexical and stylistic consensus, poetic images of love being almost unanimously centred on the ancient Greek image of Eros. In both cultures under discussion, the image of an essentially male personified Eros prevails.

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