Original scientific paper
THE METAPHORICAL AND METONYMIC IMAGES OF WATER IN THE POETRY OF JOSIP PUPAČIĆ
Sanja Franković
orcid.org/0000-0002-2086-8419
; Trinity College Dublin, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, Dublin, Ireland
Abstract
The motif of water in the poetry of Josip Pupačić appears as a homeland image (metonymy) or as an indicator of the soul’s condition (metaphor). On a metaphorical level, there is a prevailing motif of rain as youthful dreams, the river predominantly representing human transience, love and sensuality and water representing a condition of consciousness or a sign of death. The water metonymically reflects the poet’s homeland in the reverted world vision. The sea is an image of the homeland, a hint of love and existential struggle. It appears also as the contrast of water and light. In the period of creative crisis, Pupačić’s motifs of water have an abstract value since they belong to the subconsciousness of lyrical subject. In his mature poetic phase, the motif of withered or wild water is connected with the motif of land in the symbolism of the disturbed connection between alive people and their deceased ancestors. Its presence or absence has an existential and historical significance.
Keywords
motif of water; metaphor; metonymy; homeland; soul’s condition; mirror structures
Hrčak ID:
177947
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Publication date:
30.3.2017.
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