Original scientific paper
POEM "THE FOREST" FROM THE BOOK OF POEMS "I WENT ... AND FORGOT EVERYTHING" – THE POETIC MIRROR OF ŽAGAR'S POETRY
Tin Lemac
Abstract
The poem "The Forest" from the first book of poems by Anka Žagar "I went ... and forgot everything" appears as an introduction to her poetic orientation and is often comprised in the list of her poetry; it is also the most included poem in anthologies of recent Croatian poetry. Brief descriptions of it have so far covered only one meaning present in the semantics of Žagar’s poetic language, and this is its powerful metatextual nature.This paper gives an insight into how this poem presents the basic characteristics of Žagar’s poetry such as metatextuality, meta-poetics and metadescription of the world, whose implications are very important for announcig some other characteristics such as the archetypal love for homeland, pantheism and eco-poetics.Along with these basic poetic characteristics, a precise textual analysis gives insights into some stylistic features such as metaphorisation from the word to the discourse level, magic dimension of the language, aphasic processing of the poetic language and fantastication of the poetic code. The above mentioned work sets this poem as an embryo of Žagar’s autopoetics and updates some of the existing views on her.
Keywords
aphasia; magic dimension of language; metadescription of the world; metaphorization; metapoetic views; metatextuality; fantastication
Hrčak ID:
116142
URI
Publication date:
10.1.2014.
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