The most powerful image arrives in the final stanza: „Și parcă plângi, și parcă râzi – / O, zi-i tăcerii mele, crengii” („And you seem to cry, and you seem to laugh – / Oh, tell my silence, my branch”). Here, the beloved’s face is refracted through the speaker’s own emotional instability. The apostrophe to the branch—the very symbol of failed union—reveals a deep loneliness. The speaker is left speaking to a mute natural object, asking it to convey his silence. This is the ultimate paradox of the poem: the beloved’s presence is so strong that the speaker can no longer find his own voice, only a silence that he anthropomorphizes and addresses as a confidant.
Vieru evokes, through his poems, the joys and sufferings of his people, cultivating feelings of love, comfort, compassion, relief, Grigore Vieru | PDF - Scribd comentariu literar la poezia tu de grigore vieru
