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Mantinades: the way Cretans express love
A mantinada (in plural: mantinades) is Cretan rhyming couplet, typically improvised during dance music. Rhymed Cretan poetry of the Renaissance, especially verse epic Erotokritos, are reminiscent of the mantinada, and couplets from Erotokritos have become used as mantinades. Mantinades have either love or satire as their topics. They are invariably composed in dekapentasyllabos verse and are often antiphonal, i.e. a verse elicits a response and this leads to another response and so on.
The word is derived from Venetian: matinada, "morning song".
Most Cretan teenagers love traditional Cretan music and use mantinades to express love. You can find mantinades written on their books, inscribed in their desks or written with markers on the walls.
One of my students (17 years old) recently attached a mantinada on my facebook wall. I dedicate it to all of you, students from Europe:
ΚΟΜΜΑΤΙΑ ΝΑ ΤΗΝ ΚΑΝΟΥΝΕ ΤΗΝ ΕΔΙΚΗ ΜΟΥ ΑΓΑΠΗ...
ΘΑ ΖΕΙ ΝΑ ΣΕ ΞΑΝΑΓΑΠΑ ΤΟ ΚΑΘΕ ΤΗΣ ΚΟΜΜΑΤΙ...!!!!!!!!!!!!
It sounds like
Komatia na tin kanune tin ediki mu agapi (g sounds as y in yes)
Tha zi na se ksanagapa to kathe tis Komati (th sounds as in think)
And it means
Even if my love would be broken into pieces
every piece of it will live, to love you again
If you follow this link, you can listen to a cretan song with mantinades as lyrics, performed by a well known young artist. You can see how traditional cretan music is performed nowadays and even watch a cretan dance. That’s what happens in cretan weddings’ celebrations!
Portugal
Love always chased me
Everything went so fast, I had found myself in the doors of youth in just a glimpse. I was twelve years old when I found my first great passion, it started as a mere joke but it evolved to a great complicity, he went from just a friend to my best friend, everything was so perfect: I wanted to be with him, liked being with him, had butterlies in the stomach while I was with him; I remember with great joy all those moments I went through.
In my path, despite of its shortness, I have suffered, fought storms and lived through greyer days. In those days my feelings are of predominant anger, in which I just want to forget that love exists, I mean, live through all my life, leaving this feeling that sometimes causes me such anger, behind. Generally, when I find myself in the middle of these storms, when love isn’t successful, I just want to lock myself in my own bedroom, grab a pillow and listen to a song that actually makes me feel a little bit better. In those days, the grown-ups like my parents or any other adult that is my relative, never helped me in these situations, that love, is this gigantic problem. Maybe they didn’t help because they didn’t want, or maybe they actually didn’t really understand what I was going through. The people who probably helped me the most in these situations, in the course of my life, were my close friends, since they were the ones who know me best and could see how I really felt, sometimes. It’s not easy to define and understand what love is, but the way I see it, to love is to live, because
while we are in this trip so-called life, we need love to live, and we can almost never leave it aside.
B.
(10º A)
My second great passion came little after the last one, he appeared to be a great friend, and without even noticing, I suddenly had a crush. We spent a lot of time together, he knew all about me, and I knew all about him, but since we I had finished a long story not so long ago, we decided to keep still and become very special friends, it worked out pretty well, even today, and since the summer, he is my best friend, and the only person that can make me laugh when I’m cranky.
Since then, I have been quite a flirt, I never let myself get too much into the same guy, since I’m scared of getting too much into him and suffer because of it. Probably I often confuse good friendships with passions, but I don’t really care, at least while I still have my friends around their love is the most important and the most unmissable, they are the ones who complete me, which means, my mood, my joy and my sillyness, without them I could never be what I am today. I call it a friends love.
Poem «Hart break/ It happened to me»
Poema «Quebra do coração/Em mim aconteceu»
The Blow of the heart
Broken heart
Happened to me
In a land of nostalgia
Everything died
I was a pawn of fate
That a passion lost
In the middle of my way
My love disappeared
After the disgust
No one consoled me
I lost my life
And nothing left for me
Now I move on,
And forget everything
I’ve got hope
Of a new beginning
Anónimo (10º A)
Part of me, today, doesn’t make loves.
Passions arise. Fade without ever having life.
It is as if the heart had been hit by a breath, and not
with the blow of the heart.
It becomes difficult to overcome a day
when the love is not reciprocated.
It’s difficult to pass;
but in my course everything stands and everything hides,
with embarrassment or perplexity
caused only by a breeze;
The blow of the heart
Revolt.
We feel it when we need someone
that belongs to other eyes;
other lips;
another face,
We feel it when we can’t live, see, touch
this blow of the heart
Old people do not care.
They say that it’s only niceties of the youth
But, young like I am,
I give it considerable importance;
It could be a mistake but all I feel is true
I feel it like a whirlwind,
that takes walls, doors, shutters and even hearts.
And not as a mild
Blow of the heart.
10th of May of 2010
Filipe Ferreira
Romania
Alina Soare From Romania and her love expression
Love is a feeling of love for a person of the opposite sex or a sense of affection and admiration for something or someone.
Love is like a wave, you lose, and you have another master, not yourself. William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet ''surprises'' this stage of love: Romeo Juliet replaces names with monikers ''mistress'' and ''holy''. For Romeo, Juliet is the icon that he is pilgrim worships Him.
Love is strong border limited life derives its power from generously and people dedicate hard. The connection between two souls is also holy, eyes other trigger certain chord in the heart, which vibrates not only the power of memories which animates them.
Love implies reciprocity of feeling, a certainty of pleasure that no one and nothing can affect them. She lives only as long as it believes are eternal and those who love truly believe their love alive and beyond the grave. It is eternal search than what is eternally beautiful and true, that love. It is a temple of all, a place that expects a steam desire is a paved road to eternity a way that involves compromises that sometimes exceed the power of understanding.
But one lie destroys that trust, which is itself under some souls love.
Lover feels as it blooms into something that is not there, I feel alive for the beloved.
The man is and can be viewed as an entity one. But it is and should be seen as a point of intersection of multiple and divers set of relationships and interactions. The system is so closed, and open to correlate with the world and survive.
Love is a theme existing in all literatures of all time. They shall give particular importance as a fundamental human experience, which differ depending on age, sex, social status, faith, historical era or cultural affiliation. Thus, the theme is widely circulated and circulates in the whole system of literature, is both work and in the great writers of the age, in the vision-specific genres: epic, lyric or dramatic.
Love is addressed in literature from different angles, over time there are different ideas or current ideas on love.
The three main aspects that of love, both in Romanian literature and in the universal are:
1. Love the initiation
2. Love the passion
3. Tragic Love
Mihai from Romania and his love expression
Hi, my name is Mihai, and I would like to address some words to the one that I consider my soul mate. Her name is Maria and from my point of view she is the most incredible and beautiful person in the world. .... You charmed me ever since you walked up to me and said your name, ever since your friend has introduced you to me. You were my sunshine when I was overwhelmed by darkness you knew how to make me love you more and more. When I was sad, angry, or even crazy your eyes calmed me, filled me with hope and confidence. I dedicate all the love songs to you and all the heat from my heart to your arms because you blow my mind when you look me into the eyes. I have loved you since I met you and I love you now, and I will love you in the future with more and more passion than ever.
Your soul mate Mihai, I love you from all my heart, my sweet little angel ....
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