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- Title
"We Must Toil Because God Bade Men Eat": A Paradigm of Values on Food and Eating in Metai [The Seasons] by Kristijonas Donelaitis.
- Authors
POCIŪTĖ, DAINORA
- Abstract
In his famous poem The Seasons, the depiction of everyday life in the countryside is the constructive principle for Kristijonas Donelaitis’s artistic worldview. In The Seasons, all aspects of daily life, such as language, appearance, food, and eating achieve an ethical dimension reflecting the author’s philosophy of nature and Protestant values. The paradigm of food, the main focus of this article, plays an important part in the poem, since the provision of food relates to a countryman’s personal and communal obligations and his earthly vocation. What a person eats and the way it is eaten testifies to either decency or indecency, dividing the righteous Christians from the sinners.
- Subjects
METAI (Poem : Donelaitis); DONELAITIS, Kristijonas, 1714-1780; LITHUANIAN poetry; MEALS in literature; FOOD in literature; VALUES in literature; CHRISTIANITY in literature; FOOD &; society; POETRY (Literary form); LITERARY criticism
- Publication
Lituanus, 2014, Vol 60, Issue 3, p57
- ISSN
0024-5089
- Publication type
Poetry Review