The Romantic poets and Post-War Serbian poetry
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2011
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Wydawnictwo Rys (nr 1)
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The pathetic or melancholy tone of Serbian Romanticism was quite unacceptable
for modern poets who preferred irony, oxymoron, contrast, and a
disharmonic world image. In the poetry of Stevan Raičković and Desanka
Maksimović, connected by certain poetic affinities, we find a distinct lyrical
overtone and an orientation towards a simple, mythopoeic world image, inspired
by the heritage of Serbian Romanticism. In Serbian Romanticism, poetry
had a populist role and that sort of function did not quite correspond to the
functions of post-war poetry. After the war, poetry was marked by a struggle
for poetic freedom or cautious efforts on the social and political level in poetry
of Vasko Popa, Ivan V. Lalic and Ljubomir Simovic. Contemporary poetry did
not relinquish that task, but its poetic language is more nuanced, more delicate,
freed from the vocabulary and the rhetoric of oral poetry, as well as from its
pathetic-melancholy tone.
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Serbian modern poetry, Serbian Romanticism, Poetic language, Literary tradition, Neoromanticism
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Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2011, nr 1, s.257–273