Original scientific paper

CONTRASTIVE ELEMENTS IN THE POETRY OF STIJEPO MIJOVIĆ KOČAN

Zvjezdana Rados ; Odsjek za hrvatski jezik i književnost Odjela za kroatistiku i slavistiku Sveučilišta u Zadru, Zadar, Hrvatska
Marijana Trojan

Abstract

Starting from the polyphonic nature of the poetic voice of Stijepo Mijović Kočan and a broad spectrum of the motifs thematised in his poems, the paper analyses the contrastive elements in his poetry, fistly on the motif and thematic plan: motifs of the native Konavle versus urban motifs of Zagreb, secondly, on the poetic and formal plan of expression: the avant-garde, close to surrealism, automatism of associative narration "directly to the typewriter" versus the traditional rhyming verse of the
sonnet, and thirdly on the linguistic-stylistic plan: irony and satire opposite lyrical sentimentality or the štokavian standard against the native language idiom and kajkavian dialect, etc. The analysis shows that this (paradoxical) contrasting quality – obvious already from the fist collection of poems Ispovjedaonica (1969) to the recent books of poems (Sonet svinjcu… i Kati, naravno!, 2000; Sred zavičajnih nebesa, 2001; Ode himne ne, 2012, etc.) – is one of the constant characteritics of
Kočan’s poetry.

Keywords

Stijepo Mijović Kočan; contemporary Croatian poetry; avant-gardism; traditionalism; contrasting quality

Hrčak ID:

136596

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/136596

Publication date:

3.2.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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