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Kilka informacji o Pearl:
A great deal of critical discussion has taken place since the poem was first published in the late 19th century on the question of what genre the poem belonged to. Early editors, such as Morris, Gollancz and Osgood, took it for granted that the poem was an elegy for the poet's lost daughter (presumed to have been named Margaret, ie. 'pearl'); a number of scholars however, including W. H. Schofield, R. M. Garrett, and W. K. Greene, were quick to point out the flaws in this assumption, and sought to establish a definitive allegorical reading of the poem. While there is no question that the poem has elements of medieval allegory and dream vision (as well as the slightly more esoteric genre of the verse lapidary), all such attempts to reduce the poem's complex symbolism to one single interpretation have inevitably fallen flat. More recent criticism has pointed to the subtle, shifting symbolism of the pearl as one of the poem's chief virtues, recognizing that there is no inherent contradiction between the poem's elegiac and its allegorical aspects, and that the sophisticated allegorical significance of the Pearl Maiden is not unusual but in fact has several quite well-known parallels in medieval literature, the most celebrated being probably Dante's Beatrice.
Besides the symbolic, on a sheer formal level, Pearl is almost astounding in its complexity, and generally recognized to be, in the words of one prominent scholar, "the most highly wrought and intricately constructed poem in Middle English" (Bishop 27). It is composed of 101 stanzas of 12 lines each with the rhyme scheme a b a b a b a b b c b c. Stanzas are grouped in sections of five (except for XV, which has six), and each section is marked by a capital letter in the manuscript; within each section, the stanzas are tied together by the repetition of a key "link"-word, which is then echoed in the first line of the following section. The oft-praised "roundness" of the poem is thus emphasized, and the final link-word is repeated in the first line of the whole, forging a connection between the two ends of the poem and producing a structure that is itself circular. Alliteration is used frequently, but not consistently throughout the poem, and there are a number of other sophisticated poetic devices.[1]
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aya,
I wrote a poem in Quenya, corrected by Helge Fauskanger, if you agree to publish it.
Thank you.
Aiya My ancestors are told to be "Hungarian" and they settled in the south of Poland (Carpathian Mts.) some five or six hundred years ago but that was the time of so called "Vlachs' Settlement" - Vlachs were a mixture of nations so nothing's certain. But who knows, "history became legend, legend became myth" and maybe I'm Hungarian a bit
The biggest Polish tolkienian event is Tolk Folk, held annually in Bielawa, south-west of Poland, a lovely little town at the feet of Owl Mountains ( www.bielawa.pl ). Our activities, comparing to yours, are very similar - archery, battle-acting, artistic performances, concerts and so on And sitting around the fire with guitar and songs from Middle-earth, too Here you can find some photos and mp3s: www.tolkfolk.pl Many Czechs and also Slovaks come every year to Bielawa, we had guests from USA (Adam Klein and his wife Tami, opera singers from Metropolitan, NY, authors of "Leithian" opera) and Netherlands - Anois.
Besides, we do much talk on the Internet forums like this one or some other There are some fanzines ("Simbelmyne", "Gwaihir", "Aiglos") and fan books being published. And this year DTH ("Fellowship of Sober Hobbits" ) recorded an audio CD with music composed by Jacek Wanszewicz and Middle-earth texts by Polish authors. We do some linguistic work in Quenya, Sindarin etc, many fellows paint, draw, write poetry, compose music and so on. In some bigger cities we meet regularly or occasionally. We take part in Polish fantasy and sf convents with our Tolkienian stuff. Polish fandom is prolific. But Hungarian, as I see in your film, too