Animals, Plants and Crosswriting in the Poetry of Emese Egyed

Abstract

The author Emese Egyed, a literary historian and university professor in Cluj-Napoca, is an outstanding personality in Transylvanian-Hungarian scientific and cultural life. She approaches science from a creative-artistic perspective. The extremely varied scientific and educational activities of the pedagogue, who emphasises both the preservation of human values and the individualisation and development of the young, cannot be separated from her poetry. The Transylvanian-Hungarian poet has been reflecting for decades on existential and moral questions, for instance how to raise and develop a human being with nuanced emotions and stable moral values. Egyed's poems about nature, most of which have appeared in poetry collections for children, carry a message of preserving human values for both children and adults. These poems have a wide target audience, allowing them to be processed and analysed using the method of crosswriting. This paper is focused on presenting and evaluating nature motifs and their multiple references in the poetry of Egyed Emese.