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Vincit Qui Se Vincit
Originally Posted by
koldunia
Dear All,
I am interested in the topic"flowers in the literature"
D.H. Lawrence uses flowers as imagery and metaphor in both his fiction and poetry. I don't know how you research it, but it's a lead for you.
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Если жизнь тебя обманет, (If life decieves you)
Не печалься, не сердись! (Dont be sorrowful, don't be angry!)
В день уныния смирись: (On the day of despondency be subdued)
День веселья, верь, настанет. (the day of merriment, believe, will come.)
Сердце в будущем живет; (the heart lives in the future
Настоящее уныло: (the present is dejected
Всё мгновенно, всё пройдет; (All is momentary, all will pass)
что пройдет, то будет мило (which will pass, then will be dear)
--Pushkin
sorry, the translation is not exactly professional. Poetry is quite difficult to translate.
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Vincit Qui Se Vincit
Here's a Lawrence poem using flowers. Gentians have a blue flower, which is quite rare.
Bavarian Gentians
Not every man has gentians in his house
In soft September, at slow, sad Michaelmas.
Bavarian gentians, tall and dark, but dark
darkening the daytime, torch-like with the smoking blueness of Pluto's gloom,
ribbed hellish flowers erect, with their blaze of darkness spread blue,
blown flat into points, by the heavy white draught of the day.
Torch-flowers of the blue-smoking darkness, Pluto's dark-blue blaze
black lamps from the halls of Dis, smoking dark blue
giving off darkness, blue-darkness, upon Demeter's yellow-pale day
whom have you come for, here in the white-cast day?
Reach me a gentian, give me a torch!
let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower
down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness
down the way Persephone goes, just now, in first-frost September,
to the sightless realm where darkness is married to dark
and Persephone herslf is but a voice, as a bride,
a gloom invisible enfolded in the deeper dark
of the arms of Pluto as he ravishes her once again
and pierces her once more with his passion of the utter dark
among the splendour of blue-black torches, shedding fathomless darkness
on the nuptials.
Give me a flower on a tall stem, and three dark flames,
for I will go to the wedding, and be wedding guest
at the marriage of the living dark.
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Pièce de Résistance
Originally Posted by
Virgil
D.H. Lawrence uses flowers as imagery and metaphor in both his fiction and poetry. I don't know how you research it, but it's a lead for you.
If I remember correctly (has been 15 years since I read this), Lawrence uses flowers symbolically in Sons and Lovers as well. The flowers his mothers grows symbolise her desire and leaning to move out of her class?
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Vincit Qui Se Vincit
Originally Posted by
Scheherazade
If I remember correctly (has been 15 years since I read this), Lawrence uses flowers symbolically in Sons and Lovers as well. The flowers his mothers grows symbolise her desire and leaning to move out of her class?
Yes, that is correct. But I think they symbolized even more than that. Fifteen years since you read it? You must be a heading toward geriatrics, like me.
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Pièce de Résistance
Originally Posted by
Virgil
Yes, that is correct. But I think they symbolized even more than that. Fifteen years since you read it? You must be a heading toward geriatrics, like me.
You sure do know how to win a gal over!
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Originally Posted by
koldunia
I am interested in the topic"flowers in the literature"
Read "The Flowers of Evil" by Baudelaire.
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