The Function of the Dream in the Poem "Andra of life" by Ndre Mjedja Cover Image

Funksioni i ëndrrës në poemën “Andrra e jetës” të Ndre Mjedjës
The Function of the Dream in the Poem "Andra of life" by Ndre Mjedja

Author(s): Artesa Osmanaj
Subject(s): Poetry, Albanian Literature, Existentialism, Philosophy of Mind, Ontology
Published by: Univeristeti i Prishtinës, Fakulteti i Filologjisë
Keywords: poem; dream; philosophy; author; life; function;

Summary/Abstract: Theme "The function of the dream in the poem" Andra of life "of Ndre Mjedja" comes as a proposition for the International Seminar on Albanian Language, Literature and Culture, aiming to get closer to the poetry masterpiece of Ndre Mjeda "Andras of Life" concretely to investigate the role and function of dream-dreaming in the poem. "Andrra of life" is one of the main poems of Mjeda, which is often considered by critics as his masterpiece. To understand how the dream come true, we will deal with the theme, the features of the composition, the artistic features, the symbolism, the characters, the poem in general as a poetic dream. With a symbolic structure consisting of three parts, Trina, Zoga, Lokja, this poem appears to us as a life story wrapped in social colors where each of the parts represents a human life and a special ending to it by bringing art to art life, a natural season in connection with human seasons. Our interpretation will focus on Zog, exactly in the Dream of Dreams, in the dream of life. We will not miss Loka and her social dream. It is between dreams and death that the characters that represent the dream of life, the coming of death, must be seen. The fate of Bird is presented in the second part of this poem, which consists of four poems, in which Mjeda through the dream strongly shows the experiences, the situations of both Zog and Lokes. Both women in the poem of Mjeda, mother and daughter dream, but her daughter dreams differently, for a boy, a dream of love and mother otherwise, for the good of tomorrow, a social dream. Here, one must surely see the reality of dream awakening. Dreams and life will be seen as two different directions for treatment, one capturing imagination, the other being reality. As the title says, in the poem, the dream of life also takes on a meaning of life representing a vital metaphor. The search is profound, but the goal is through this study to encourage curiosity to investigate, interpret and capture the most eminent and characteristical segments of the poem related to its dream and its function. All of this will make an effort to accomplish thanks to the help of literature, research and non-scarcity studies that refer to this poem by using a comparative, research, historical, empirical methodology as a research methodology.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 38.2
  • Page Range: 187-193
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Albanian