That you for the text. "In that vacant room_the heat and light_multiplied, reflected,_flaring down.". This concludes the contextual transposition-" this conflagration" (-latin "to blaze"). There is an altered state and perhaps an entity (being) that is evolving/has evolved here. The sexual desire and lust reiterates my conclusion-to transfer to a different position/location. There appears to be these metaphoric exchanges occurring throughout his poetry.
I agree with your overview. Cavafy is not the first gay man to make a god of the animus (male version of the female anima in Jungian terms). It is exactly what Hadrian did for Antinous. Libido does not mean just sex drive, it covers the whole will to life. Of course, sex is the prime manifestation of this, the sine qua non.
Yes, I agree. Even from your translation, it seems to me sensual, but I am not expert. That is not to say it as sensual as some have made it out to be, and you may be more in the right. It reads much like a poem of the Romantics, short, bold and sensual it seems. Good job.
I have tried a number of internet sites for translations of Cavafy poem's-but the translations are different to each other and to your readings. My interpretation of the concepts in the last poem is one of raw energy being transposed upon one's body in any form it may take-reflections of the crystal of the chandelier and fire (flames).
Note: the new edition of Cavafy's poems I mentioned here was published by Oxford World's Classics in the UK and the translator is Evangelos Sachperoglou. It contains the Greek as well as the English text. Charles.
you have such a sexy voice.
BCD6969 3 years ago
That you for the text. "In that vacant room_the heat and light_multiplied, reflected,_flaring down.". This concludes the contextual transposition-" this conflagration" (-latin "to blaze"). There is an altered state and perhaps an entity (being) that is evolving/has evolved here. The sexual desire and lust reiterates my conclusion-to transfer to a different position/location. There appears to be these metaphoric exchanges occurring throughout his poetry.
tHEnOOSEsWINGS 4 years ago
I agree with your overview. Cavafy is not the first gay man to make a god of the animus (male version of the female anima in Jungian terms). It is exactly what Hadrian did for Antinous. Libido does not mean just sex drive, it covers the whole will to life. Of course, sex is the prime manifestation of this, the sine qua non.
brychar66 4 years ago
Fascinating. Your thoughts alongside the verse make a good experience even better.
megansspark 4 years ago
Your commentaries and musings on the poems make the readings even more enjoyable. Thank you.
palcsi 4 years ago
Yes, I agree. Even from your translation, it seems to me sensual, but I am not expert. That is not to say it as sensual as some have made it out to be, and you may be more in the right. It reads much like a poem of the Romantics, short, bold and sensual it seems. Good job.
Theotokos86 4 years ago
I have tried a number of internet sites for translations of Cavafy poem's-but the translations are different to each other and to your readings. My interpretation of the concepts in the last poem is one of raw energy being transposed upon one's body in any form it may take-reflections of the crystal of the chandelier and fire (flames).
tHEnOOSEsWINGS 4 years ago
its is so great , that are reciting this , excellent
bafr1 4 years ago
Note: the new edition of Cavafy's poems I mentioned here was published by Oxford World's Classics in the UK and the translator is Evangelos Sachperoglou. It contains the Greek as well as the English text. Charles.
brychar66 4 years ago