The motive of love through the connoted language - differences between the variants of some poems of Zef Serembe

Abstract

During the romanticism period, the two most explored motifs of poetry, besides others, were those of war and love. Many authors will deal with the first motif, but there will be no author at all in Albanian Romantic Literature that won’t involve in his creations love poetry. The erotic motif will lie somewhere more and somewhere less into the creativity of each representative of this period. Zef Sersembe is a Romantic ItalianArbëresh writer, whom devoted his life to poetry. Most of his poems are dedicated to love and it can be said that these creations can be considered as the most prosperous ones of this poet. He brought in Albanian and Italian literature not only a beautiful poetry, but also a creative individuality characterized by a distinctive and representative style. It will be exactly erotic poetry and some of its features which will be subject of our survey. Will be analyzed some of the elements that emerge in these creations, elements that relate not only to the use of motives, but also to the particular ways in which this author's erotic poetry is constructed through the connotation of language. The chosen creations that are object of our work are written in variants; therefore the main focus will be the way language is used to create different meanings, from almost the same corpus of signs between these variants.