Vol. 17 (2024): Contemporary Issues of Literary Criticism Literatures of Small Countries and Challenges of the Modern Global World
Genre Diversity and Georgian Literary Discourse

Trope in Georgian and English Romantic Poets’ Poems

Nino Dondoladze
Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University

Published 2024-12-20

Keywords

  • trope,
  • romanticism,
  • aesthetics,
  • Christian

Abstract

A trope can be an important charactertistic feature of a poem. Tropes can reflect changes happening in the time, national characteristics and aesthetics of a literary movement. They can convey not only a poet’s mood, but also part of his Weltanschauung. The aim of the article is to show essential chracteristics of verbal structures of Romantic poetry and explore similarities and differences between tropes applied by Georgian and English Romantic poets.
The study of tropes is carried out mainly through Maia and Giorgi Natadze’s theory of imagery. Tropes in poems by English and Georgian poets are analyzed and it is concluded that metaphors of the Georgian and English Romantic poets reflect aesthetics of the movement. Tropes differ in terms of “compactness,” which is the result of national characteristics.