METAFORA TIMPULUI ÎN POEZIA DRAGOSTEI DE VIAȚĂ A LUI PANAIT CERNA

Abstract

Considered by the critics of the time as a sensitive author that empathizes
with the many and the oppressed, Panait Cerna manages through his texts to voice
his love and thirst for life, adding to these accents of optimism, thus differentiating
himself from Mihai Eminescu. Temporality is another significant dimension of his
creation that we find in the poems used by Panait Cerna to emphasize the message
that life is the supreme gift. Using a referential language, but especially an
emotional one, the poetry of the love of life that Cerna includes in the volume
Poems (1910) becomes a characteristic of his philosophical conception developed in
a period when the Romanian literature needed a new type of statement. Even in
the case of Panait Cerna, the metaphor of time is a frequently encountered procedure used to emphasize the poet's interest for meditation. The poet's feeling
of love changes the forms in which the idea of time and immortality is presented,
as the poet directs the struggle of man meant to be subjected to pain to the
miraculous power of love found in all the dimensions of existence. Love,
regardless of its forms, is omnipotent: "We are stronger: we love."