Studia Polensia, Vol. 8 No. 1, 2019.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.32728/studpol/2019.08.01.04
DUBROVNIK BY TADIJANOVIĆ - A SPACE OF INTIMATE IN THE SERVICE OF THE ETERNAL
Tonći Lazibat
; University of Zagreb
Abstract
From the very beginnings of its founding, the city has had a great
significance: started as the center of social life, in a diachronic sense it
has become a place of gathering of different centers of power, the public
space, as well as the space of the private - by weaving collective and
individual memory into it. The latter is recognized in Tadijanović’s Poems
of Dubrovnik, a collection of fourteen poems for which the poet finds
inspiration in the Town of Poets, over and over again, during the seventy-
years time span. It is the city he loved from the very first moment, but
in which he was loved as well, thus he often comes back in his thoughts,
linking past, present and future. We have highlighted the four phases of
his writing inspired by the Eternal City and have related the theme-motive
background with the poet’s age. It is noticed that, in relation to the youthful
and playful first love, the worries, the enthusiasm and the exhilaration, his
later lyric is pervaded by philosophical concerns about the meaning of life,
death, transience and the life’s drab, but he does not therefor diminish the
importance of Dubrovnik. With his first and last poem he creates a kind
of alpha and omega of his Dubrovnik opus, signifying Dubrovnik as one
perfectly finished mindset, by its cyclical reminding on the circle and thus
on the reproducibility of the life cycle: birth - life - death - rebirth (through
re-readings of poems, in the poet’s case).
Keywords
city; Dragutin Tadijanović; Dubrovnik; Poems of Dubrovnik; Poetry
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Publication date:
4.12.2019.
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