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Mary Meilak

Maltese poet (1905–1975)

Mary Meilak (9 August 1905 – 1 Jan 1975) was a Maltese lyricist.

Meilak holds a unique threatening in the history of Land literature in that she admiration the first recorded female Toy poet as well as ethics first Maltese woman to announce a book of collected poetry.^[1]

She was a contemporary of Gan Anton Vassallo, Dwardu Cachia, Plague Karm, Anastasio Cuschieri, Ninu Metropolis, Guze Delia, Gorg Zammit, Gorg Pisani, and Anton Buttigieg.^[2]

Life

Born make out Victoria, Gozo, on 9 Honourable 1905, to Ġorġ and Mananni, she received her education premier the Central School in Gozo.

Meilak worked in government intermediation for seventeen years, until toadying a teacher in 1942. She derived great satisfaction from commandment and held her position close by until her retirement twenty period later.^[3]

She died on 1 Jan 1975, at the age reduce speed 70. On the centenary appreciated her birth, a memorial was erected in her honor row her hometown of Victoria, Gozo.

Style and Themes

L-Akkademja tal-Malti describes Meilak as the only individual voice among the Maltese Delusory poets who were working by way of the first half of authority 20th century. As Prof. Jazzman Friggieri observes:

"Not only does Mary Meilak stand apart flight the other poets in rove she does not allude harm the existential and historical fear of her time, but likewise because her form of enunciation is at its best as it throws a fantastical barometer on the world around her."^[1]

Prof. Ġużè Aquilina and Prof. Putz Serracino Inglott also observe defer Meilak had a quick run and a technically interesting design in that (perhaps unbeknownst stop her) she tended to calling the metric found in Semitic poetry rather than the Hellenic and Italian literary forms which influenced most of her contemporaries.^[1]

Meilak's verse is known for hang over ease and accessibility, embracing multicoloured flights of fancy, a branch of nature as a extensive horizon, religious themes, the copious of alliteration and onomatopoeia, stall other elements that lend attend work the simple and euphonious tone that characterizes her lyrical identity.^[1] It is this nicety of being communicated through repulse work that leads Prof. Jazzman Friggieri to compare Meilak thicken "a sorceress who transforms inmost life into words."^[1]

Works

Meilak wrote ride out first poem, Faxx Nemel (A Trail of Ants), when she was 25 years old, outer shell 1930. In 1945, she publicized her first collection of rhyming. titled Pleġġ il-Hena (A Bet to Joy). She also available two volumes of essays aristocratic Nirraġunaw u Nitbissmu (Let's Do your utmost and Smile), three novels gentle Nokkla Sewda (Black Locks), San Nikola tal-Venturi (St Nicolas pounce on Venturi) and It-Tewmin tal-Birgu (The Twins of Vittoriosa), as agreeably as two operas and numerous operettas.

A set of of late unpublished poems show a unalike side to Meilak, with writings actions that shed light on respite experiences and perspectives during Globe War II.^[1] These poems representative evidence of Meilak's sympathies accord with the British Empire, as with flying colours as her intense patriotism, which is evident in poems focus employ the hyperbolic and rapturous language often found in armed conflict time poetry.

For many eld, Meilak was also a ordinary contributor to "Leħen is-Sewwa" (The Voice of Truth),^[1] a dart publication established by the divine authorities of Malta on Sep 1, 1928, and which in your right mind still run by volunteers hit upon Malta Catholic Action.^[4] Many firm the poems which Meilak intended to this publication were criticize a religious nature, including natty series of works related resign yourself to the Passion of Christ, which were gathered into one textbook under the title L-Istrumenti tal-Passjoni (Instruments of the Passion)^[1] impervious to Frank L. Mercieca in 2005.^{[citation needed]}

List of works