Danubius International Conferences, 3rd International Conference The Danube - Axis of European Identity

The Floral Symbol in the Poetry of Heinrich Heine

Aleksandra Chepelyk
Last modified: 2013-05-25

Abstract

The article is devoted the plant symbolics which became the inalienable constituent of the original creation of Heinrich Heine. The distinctive traits of the artist’s lyric poetry are floral images, which are able to reflect the psychology of the human soul in the correlation with the spiritual substance – the divine nature. The immersion of Heinrich Heine in the world of the plants was conducive to the activation of the special emotional and psychological loading with the purpose of the comprehension of the internal experience of the lyric subject, represented in the sensory perceptible figurative, sound and visual landscapes.