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Odysseas Elytis The Greek Poet of Light

Odysseas Elytis The Greek Poet of Light. 1911 – 1996 8 th High School of Trikala , Greece May 2013. “Which of them is a nobel prize winning poet?”. Melina Mercouri. Dr. Papanikolaou. Odysseas Elytis. Mikis Theodorakis. Eleftherios Venizelos.

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Odysseas Elytis The Greek Poet of Light

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  1. Odysseas ElytisThe Greek Poet of Light 1911 – 1996 8th High School of Trikala, Greece May 2013

  2. “Which of them is a nobel prize winning poet?” Melina Mercouri Dr.Papanikolaou Odysseas Elytis MikisTheodorakis Eleftherios Venizelos

  3. The correct answer is “Odysseas Elytis” • Nobel Prize Ceremony

  4. The Life of the Great Poet • Odysseas Elytis was born in the island of Crete in a town called Heraklion on November 2, 1911. His family was from Mytilene. They late moved to Athens, where he graduated from high school and then attended courses at the Law School of the University of Athens. He wrote his first poem after one of his friends, GiorgosSeferis, prompted him to do so.

  5. In 1937 he served his military requirements. He was initially placed at the 1st Army Corps Headquarters but then he was transferred to the 24th Regiment, on the first-line of the battlefields of the Greco-Italian war (1940)

  6. Odysseas Elytis was a big fan of travelling. He visited Switzerland, England, Italy and Spain. After all those travels he settled in Paris during the years 1948-1952. Then, he travelled again to the USA, the Soviet Union and Bulgaria amd because of the greek junta he went to Paris again and stayed there from 1969-1972.

  7. An Excerpt of his lecture “May I be permitted, I ask you, to speak in the name of luminosity and transparency. The space I have lived in and where I have been able to fulfil myself is defined by these two states. States that I have also perceived as being identified in me with the need to express myself.It is good, it is right that a contribution be made to art, from that which is assigned to each individual by his personal experience and the virtues of his language. Even more so, since the times are dismal and we should have the widest possible view of things.I am not speaking of the common and natural capacity of perceiving objects in all their detail, but of the power of the metaphor to only retain their essence, and to bring them to such a state of purity that their metaphysical significance appears like a revelation. … To hold the Sun in one's hands without being burned, to transmit it like a torch to those following, is a painful act but, I believe, a blessed one. We have need of it. One day the dogmas that hold men in chains will be dissolved before a consciousness so inundated with light that it will be one with the Sun, and it will arrive on those ideal shores of human dignity and liberty.”

  8. He received many awards. In 1960 he was awarded the First State Poetry Prize, in 1965 the Order of the Phoenix and in 1975 he was awarded the Doctor HonorisCausa in the Faculty of Philosophy at Thessaloniki University and received the Honorary Citizenship of the Town of Mytilene. However, the greatest of them was the Literature Nobel Prize, which he received in 1979.

  9. Odysseas Elytis died in Athens on 18 March 1996, at the age of 84. His body is dead but his memory and his work still remain in the minds of all people.

  10. What has Elytis left after his death? • Odysseas Elytis, firstly, wrote mainly literary works but after the Greco-Italian war he started writing more poems. Generally his work consists of collections of essays, critical essays and poems.

  11. Elytis’ Literary Works • The True Face and Lyrical Bravery of Andreas Kalvos (1942) • 2x7 e (collection of small essays) • My Cards To Sight (1973) • The Painter Theophilos (1973) • The Magic Of Papadiamantis (1975) • Report to Andreas Empeirikos (1977) • Things Public and Private Carte Blanche (1990) • The Garden with the Illusions (1995) • Open Papers: Selected Essays (1995)

  12. Poetry Sources of inspiration • The Sun

  13. Poetry sources of inspiration • The Sea

  14. Poetry sources of inspiration • Love

  15. Works of poetry • Orientations (1939) • Sun The First Together With Variations on A Sunbeam (1943) • A Heroic And Funeral Chant For The Lieutenant Lost In Albania (1946) • To AxionEsti—It Is Worthy (1959) • Six Plus One Remorses For The Sky (1960) • The Light Tree And The Fourteenth Beauty (1972) • The Sovereign Sun (1971)

  16. Continued… • The Trills Of Love (1973) • The Monogram (1972) • Step-Poems (1974) • Signalbook (1977) • Maria Nefeli (1978) • Three Poems under a Flag of Convenience (1982) • Diary of an Invisible April (1987) • The Little Mariner (1988) • The Elegies of Oxopetra (1991) • West of Sadness (1995) • Eros, Eros, Eros: Selected and Last Poems (1998)

  17. The End If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her. If you cannot find spring, make it. … You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us. … Stand and face me, my love, and scatter the grace in your eyes. Odysseas Elytis

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