THE EONS OF TIMES AND THE NEW AGE Master SAAPIC I

Student Nechita Robert Bio-Blurb

Nechita Robert (B.A. at Petru Maior University of Trgu Mure) is currently a masters degree student in Anglo-American Studies: Intercultural Perspectives at Petru Maior University of TrguMure (Romania). He has a double specialization, both in Romanian and English Language and Literature and now he is specializing in Anglo-American studies. At present, he is working like a manager-assistant in Italy in the field of Disney products and advertising. He was a student of Bolyai University Cluj Napoca in Hebrew language and Judaic Studies. In addition, he started-up the elaboration of casework in the Hungarian folklore, a comparison with the paremiological treasure of the Rumanian ancient popular culture.

Key words: ancient myths, cultural movements, life, symbolism.

About the article For unknown reasons the intellectual products of the humanity are generally encrypted in variable art and cultural movements. The myths records the most ancient form of culture and human experiences. Wystan Hughes Auden buries in his poem almost the entire message in the back of the random of words and in a mixture of religious and myths suggestions. But in the final he recognise in the example of Icarus that the Life and Time are more powerful than any ideology or human invented religion.

The Eons of Time and the New Age

The history and the cultural movements along the ages recorded the evolutions or the involutions of human beings. Yet many times the facts arrived to the present brought often-distorted imagines of the past. Cause of such heritage, indifferent which would be our efforts to understand the human moral values, the social structure and its hierarchy, or the cultural sources we will face a condensed net of symbols that hide the initial meanings. All the immemorial stories of the folklore of our ancestral parents for unclear reasons personify the elements of nature and sky, of inner and external phenomena they could not give a reasonable explanation or contrarily occult designed. Thus, for example the pantheon of the Greek mythology recorded an uncountable numbers of heroes and idols of the heavens and earth, of the entities seen and unseen, some of these with good omens, others ominous to the fate of human beings. Today such inclinations can be found in the philosophy, literature, or scientific branches that often tries to hide than to clear the direction of the present modern society; the like the cultural movements that later will let traces in all the level of live no mater we look in the life stile, industrial production, education, politics, diplomacy or war conflicts. The poem of Wystan Hughes Auden, Muse des Beaux Arts is concealing in like manner the same signs of the past and of the future in every verse, he wrote. The source of his inspiration seems have been a picture of the Pieter Brueghel the Elder a Flemish Renaissance artist. Modernism movement broke with the past and tried to redefine various art forms in a radical manner. Powerfully influential in this wave of modernity were the theories of Sigmund Freud that offered a new view on the states of unconscious mind, a view that Carl Jung would go further with these, to another dimension that of a collective unconscious. These mentioned aspects can be helpful in the agglomeration cascade of imagines that flows with nonappearance logic from the begging to the end in the poem of Wystan. However, a new reading can be helpful to visualize the imagines that the words spread a story of some Old Masters. A revelation of

the suffering might be the deep knowledge these possessed not only the perishable experience of human position. The inner representations follows a strings of movement verbs eating, opening, walking, a nuanced site of the real. Then follows the artificial intervention of an age that reverently waiting exposed in the non-transparent and the difficult language of the poet giving so waited clue for deciphering the mystification in which we were dropt. Time is a central theme of the poem even if the author hides his intentions in the puzzled words of an Avant-Garde approach. The miraculous birth mentioned being of that of a new age, of Aquarius. From here, the poet gives indicators of other age that ends. Introduced by the dreadful martyrdom, of the forsaken cry, opposes to the doggy life, torturers horse, the following verses leads us to the submersible bible story of Christians and the Age of Pisces that arrived at its end. Other story that intersects the Time motive is that of the Greek Legend of Icarus. Here all the elements of disobedience and falling are in fact of the self that the Modernism praised so much. Today like in no other times, the individual and self-ideology has been raise to an unprecedented level. The today human beings consider themselves gods, like Icarus. This once in the sky souring is ignoring the well-intended warnings of Daedalus, his old father, impertinence that cost his life, an invisible line of life and death, unknown to those arrogant and inexperienced fellows. Nevertheless, the conclusion of the poem imprints in fact the effects of the self-culture and of the individual theories, where the encrypted typology of the self hides the cruel reality of some human beings and their fate. The fall of the Icarus is asimililated similarly somehow not just with the end of a religion or an age but also with the failure of the Modernism movement that intended more and succeeds less. However, the Time will not bother for the vanishing in the void of an unnatural human theory about Life. Life is continuing its course undisturbed even by the fall of Icarus or by the ignorant attitudes of those that saw or unnoticed the tragedy. In the book, What Great Paintings Say second volume of Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen we can read in the Foreword these words: Pictures are windows. They open up a view that extends beyond the familiar horizons of everyday life. They bring us face to face with figures we do not know, with buildings from times gone by, and landscapes that no longer look the same or never existed at all. Pictures offer adventure. At least to those who are willing to step out of the four walls around them and - using their physical senses, their powers of intellect and their own life experience - discover all that the work of art holds in store. This book aims to assist in this process of discovery. It answers questions that lead us further on our quest, and it magnifies details that are important for the whole.1

Rose-Marie & Rainer Hagen, What Great Paintings Say. Koln: Taschen GmbH, 2003.

Biography

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References: Rose-Marie & Rainer Hagen, What Great Paintings Say. Koln: Taschen GmbH, 2003.