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Secţiunea Limbă şi literatură engleză: Robert Moscaliuc – premiul I; Ana-Maria Năsui – premiul II;
Bogdan Cotiso Nistorică – premiul III.
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ECSTASY OF DREAM, OR A POSSIBLE READING OF BLISS CARMAN’S “LOW TIDE ON
GRAND PRÉ”
Robert Moscaliuc
Conducător ştiinţific: conf. dr. Michaela Mudure
Secţiunea: Limbă şi literatură engleză (premiul I)
Bliss Carman (1861-1929), the “unofficial poet laureate of Canada”, was crowned as Canada’s major
poet even though he has often been considered by the critics a late romantic closely connected in manner and
way of thinking to the representatives of the Lake School romantic poets. In his youth he studied Physics,
Mathematics and last but not least Philosophy. He was mainly influenced by the humanistic, transcendental
work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Taking into consideration his inclination towards nature and its
representations in the human psyche, he has been perceived mostly as a poet of nature. Although he is not a
nature poet alone, his genius also influenced his approach to man’s social life. His imagination is extremely
sensitive to the influence of his environment framed by the Canadian Maritime, a place which always plays an
important part in his poems. Still, his ‘sometimes’ lack of originality and simplicity of view restrain his poetry
to the expectations of his own age. His philosophy is mainly unitrinianism, namely it is concerned with the
harmony between body, soul, and mind. The linking node of these three elements is Love, the lord of life, the
divine energy that can only be transmitted through the media of the senses – hence, his propensity towards eye
touching imagery. The ideals awakened by it inside the human psyche can only be adequately realised by the
help of reason. Among other works – some thirty volumes of poetry and prose – such as The Poetry of Life,
The Making of Personality, Songs from Vagabondia, his most prolific piece is the volume firstly published in
1893, namely Low Tide on Grand Pré. Its title poem remains his most acclaimed work in verse. These works
have made him one of the most fruitful writers of the Maple School of Poetry.
Low Tide on Grand Pré (the poem) has been alleged as the single nearly perfect poem to come out of
Canada. In this poem, Carman’s greatest strength as a poet lay in his ability to create a sense of mood and
atmosphere and to evoke a strong sense of place by the use of vivid landscape descriptions of the Canadian
Maritime region. Although mainly a nature poem that places under emphasis the effects produced by nature
upon the human psyche, it could also be looked at from the perspective of the epistemological-ontological
problem of perception versus projection, reality versus dream or, in other words, with the mysterious