The religious feeling in the poetry of Zoe Karelli

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Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Ανάγνωση, Φιλαναγνωσία και εκπαιδευτικό υλικό
Library of the School of Education
Deposit date:
2019-10-30
Year:
2019
Author:
Pantazopoulou Vasiliki
Supervisors info:
Κωνσταντίνος Δ. Μαλαφάντης, Καθηγητής, ΠΤΔΕ,ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Το θρησκευτικό συναίσθημα στην ποίηση της Ζωής Καρέλλη
Languages:
Greek
Translated title:
The religious feeling in the poetry of Zoe Karelli
Summary:
The present study examines the religious sentiment in the poetry of Zoe Karelli, a prominent literary form of the 30s generation and the so-called "Thessaloniki School". The poet nourished herself with the blends of classical antiquity, orthodoxy and Byzantium, and formed a strictly structured identity, which she consistently followed throughout her life and work.
Religious sentiment has been present in poetry since antiquity and is a universal phenomenon. Especially in Greek literary production, after the Second World War, there was a surge, so the reference to religion, and in particular to Orthodoxy, became thicker and more substantial.
Karelli stood out from her peers, adopting an introspective and intellectual disposition towards all-human problems (war, death, pain, wear, loneliness, etc.), refusing to spend on aesthetics. She has an alertness of mind, deepens and endures the nails of her soul. In this spiritual struggle, contact with the Christian ideal is confronted with personal weakness, temptation, infidelity - with carnal falls and sinful desire. This is how the dipole pleasure-pain, which divides the poet, is created. Karelli's entire poetry is built on a web of contrasts.
Man for Karelli is a soul, body and spirit. These three elements make up his figure. On the one hand, the immortal and eternal soul longs for deification, on the other the perishable body longs for temporary enjoyment and pleasure. Dividing sometimes gives rise to unsatisfied, deprived and fantasizing, and sometimes doubt and tradition to hedonic saturation.
The incessant flow of time causes damage to the body and despair to the soul, as it leads to death. Life and death contend throughout Karelli's poetry. But aware of the resurrection and the posthumous prospect of existence, the Karelian person is acquainted with the mystery of death, viewed as a passage to the "other life".
Carrelli often praises the Mother of God and is illuminated by the sweet, serene glow of the Virgo. She invokes the angels as helpers in her struggle, but often they stumble. Other beloved faces are those of the saints • people who lived attentive lives, defeated sin, and are close to the Lord.
The aroma of orthodoxy inspires Karelli's work and is evident in the archaic and full of adjective, adorned with passages of ecclesiastical language, and in the inner, pompous rhythm of her poems, reminiscent of Byzantine hymnography. At the same time, the content of her religious poems is deeply rooted in ascetic life, repentance and the need for atonement, the mystery of human existence and the secret, inward, divine presence. Karelli has rightly been described as the "bold old lady of our letters".



Thus the Karelian ego commits sin, so it is deliberately cut off from God and men. Through apostasy and self-isolation is born the desire for love, repentance and atonement, the return to God and society.
Main subject category:
Language – Literature
Keywords:
religion, orthodoxy, deterioration, death, life, resurrection, loneliness, pleasure, pain, body, soul
Index:
No
Number of index pages:
0
Contains images:
No
Number of references:
85
Number of pages:
116
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