Why don't you come? A discussion about Mihai Eminescu's poem

Why don't you come? A discussion about Mihai Eminescu's poem

Mihai Eminescu, 1850-1889, was a writer, journalist and romantic poet, who was often celebrated as Romania's largest and most famous poet. He was considered a Romanian national poet for many years and was called "the most important figure of Romanian culture".

still through modern Romania. His face is engraved on a few Romanian paper currencies, for example. Numerous statues and busts of Eminescu can also be found across the country. There are several schools and libraries and other buildings named after Eminescu. And the anniversaries of his birth and death are celebrated with national celebrations.

the poet

Eminescu was born and grew up in Moldova, the northeastern region of Romania. He attended school until he was 16 and began to publish some of his poems in a Budapest literary magazine at this age. Eminescu worked as an employee for a theater group in the newly named capital Bucharest for several years. During this time he continued to write and published his poems.

Eminescu left the troop after three years and traveled to Vienna, where he studied philosophy for three years. During this time he wrote political articles and poems for a local literary magazine. He also became a participating journalist for a newspaper in Budapest.

Then Eminescu went to Berlin for two years, where he continued his studies. He moved to Berlin to Iasi, the cultural and economic center of Moldova, Romania, where he worked as director of the central library. In honor of him, the impressive library is now named after him. Eminescu also became the editor of one of the local newspapers in Iasi.

After three years in Iasi, he moved back to Bucharest, where he spent most of his life. He became the editor -in -chief of an important newspaper in Bucharest, for which he wrote his most famous political articles, including those who supported the striving for international recognition of Romanian independence. During this time he also wrote and published his most famous poems, including "The Evening Star".

1883 Eminescu was hospitalized for his deteriorating health. He was diagnosed with syphilis and manic depression. A few years later, his state of health deteriorated and he was treated with mercury injections, the standard treatment for syphilis. In the last six years of his life he wrote nothing important and was in and from hospitals and sanatoriums. He died in 1889 at the age of 39.

The poem

1883, while Eminescu was in a sanatorium in Vienna, Titu Maiorescu published a anthology of his poems entitled "Poesii". In his foreword to the volume that Eminescu was always "too unconditional and undemanding in relation to the future fate of his work" in order to create a collective publication.

Eminescus poems include a wide range of topics, including nature, love, history, politics and social questions. His studies of philosophy, especially Schopenhauer, also influenced his poetic work. The influence of his poems on Romanian culture is so strong that studying his poems in Romanian schools is a prerequisite. Often an analysis of his “The Evening Star” is part of the final exam.

"Why don't you come?" is a touching and romantic love poem about the longing of a man for his lover. The poem is easy to read and recite due to its simple and easily recognizable shape.

The shape of the poem comprises 6 four lines, stanzas of four lines each. This is the most common of all forms of stanza in European poetry. The four -lines have a rhyme scheme from AABB that produces two short couplets per stanza, one of the simplest rhyme schemes in poetry. The rhythm of the poem is the easily recognizable Jambian tetrameter. All lines, apart from the first, are regularly and consist of four two -syllable Jambian feet, with the second syllable of each foot emphasized.

The person who appeals to Eminescu's poem is probably Veronica Micle, the love of his life and the woman he had hoped to get married, even though the circumstances separated from each other. They got to know each other when Eminescu studied in Vienna. Although MICLE was married to a university professor thirty years older, she developed a close relationship with the attractive and romantic eminescu.

MICLE became short story author and romantic poet, her style was not surprisingly influenced by Eminescus. She published numerous poems, several of whom were devoted to Eminescu.

After the death of their husband, Micle and Eminescu were almost married, but numerous stresses, including his developing diseases, removed them. When he fell seriously, Micle moved to Bucharest and has maintained Eminescu in the past two years of his life. Plagued after his death of grief, Micle died of self -caused arsenic poisoning two months later.

1887, shortly before Micles arrival in Bucharest, Eminescu wrote "Why don't you come?"

Why don't you come?

by Mihai Eminescu

translated by Corneliu M. Popescu

see how the swallows leave the eaves

and fall the yellow walnut leaves,

The vines with autumn frost are deaf,

Why don't you come, why don't you come?

Oh, come into my arms hug

so that I look in your face,

and put my head in grateful calm

on your chest, on your chest!

you remember when we got lost

The meadows and the secret clearing,

I kissed you in the middle of flowering thyme

How often, how often?

Some women on Earth are

whose eyes shine as the evening star,

But be her charm, no matter what,

like you are not like you are not!

because you always beam in my soul

gentler than the star light,

more wonderful than the rising sun,

loved, loved one!

but now it's late in autumn,

The leaves have fallen from the branch,

The fields are bare, the birds are silent.

Why don't you come, why don't you come?

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