Filologija, No. 49, 2007.
Original scientific paper
Vetranović’s “Poem on the Lord’s Prayer”
Lahorka Plejić-Poje
orcid.org/0000-0002-5613-9699
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
This article considers Vetranović’s “Poem on the Lord’s Prayer” against the Lord’s Prayer and describes the way in which the prayer is magnified into a religious lyric poem. Besides various theological and religious themes, this poetic paraphrase touches upon current affairs and secular issues (the emergence of Protestantism, the Turkish conquess, different social anomalies such as corruption, etc.) The tone employed by Vetranović is often polemic. The article concludes that, on one hand, this poem oversteps the boundaries of a prayer, and that, on the other, it also oversteps those of a lyric poem. It goes to show that “Poem on the Lord’s Prayer” is more emblematic of Vetranović’s poetics than of the poetics of the religious lyric poem of his time.
Keywords
Mavro Vetranović; Lord’s Prayer; paraphrase; religious lyric poem
Hrčak ID:
33700
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2008.
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