REVERIES BY THE FIREPLACE

👤Author

Name: Simona Galațchi
Affiliation: “G. Cälinescu” Institute of Literary History and Theory ofthe Romanian Academy
Contact: simonagala@yahoo.com

📄Article

Citation Recommendation: Galațchi, Simona. ”Reveries By The Fireplace”. Synthesis, no. XLI, 2014, pp. 47-56
Title: REVERIES BY THE FIREPLACE
Pages: 47-56
Language: English
URL: https://synthesis.ro/pdf/2014/XLI/5_S_Galatchi.pdf

Abstract

This article analyses the symbolism of the fire in literature from a psychoanalytical perspective. Among the authors taken into consideration for this purpose range romantics like Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Byron, Alfred Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, T. S. Eliot. Fire is mainly referred to express passion, longing, love and death at the same time, purification and redemption. Matthew Amold’s Empedocles, the character of his dramatic poem Empedocles on Etna, is explained by his living and dying instincts. With W. B. Yeats, fire has a complex and wide range of meanings. Like Tennyson, Yeats reaches the sublimation of fire symbolism with repre[1]sentations of rose. T. S. Eliot brings up the idea that fire can unify two opposites of a paradox and facilitate our passing through by the power of imagination, of reveries

Keywords: fire, reveries, psychoanalysis, complex, literature