Eros și Thanatos în poeziile Magdei Isanos

Abstract

Magda Isanos wrote during her life and she prepared texts for publishing that intensively suggest her vision regarding life, death and about the bridge that connects the two concepts, the love. Her volume, Poems, printed in 1943, before her death, gives the feeling of a thorough power of construction. No verse is randomly written down. The writer’s imaginary hides a psychoanalysis act, a hard and continuous search for itself.
Death has always been the favourite theme in Magda Isanos’ poetry. For a young girl, in her prime, dealing with the thought of death is unusual. Coming off the press in June 1st 1937, in the magazine “The Notes of Iasi”, the poem We die…like tomorrow is an amazing expression of intuition, indefinite for the moment, of the human individual’s sensibility.
The fear caused by sensing the appearance of death will increase in the volumes coordinated by the author itself: the first one, Poems, 1943, and the two published after her death: Weighed the mountains”, 1945 and “The country of light”, 1946, which, according to some confessions, the poetess arranged in order to be printed shortly before she die.
In the case of her poetry, death and sleep are similar. The sleep suggests an abort of the passage of time, a way-out from becoming, assisting to eternity, a divine state. On the background of a symbolic thinking, death wears many faces. The faces are meek or baneful, bright or dark. Death is seen as going into another world, the author showing interest in its vegetal aspects after death.
Maybe the feeling that the end is coming and the resignation of death, which hides, in fact, a thirst for life, determined the poetess to perceive love as a nectar of life. In Magda Isanos’ creation love knows many forms: the love for a couple, the love for a child, the love for God, the love for nature, the love for life, and, paradoxically, the love for death.
The writer manages to incorporate in her works, in a harmonious way, the love, thanks to which life springs, but also death, an imminent phenomenon.