KOMPARATIVNA ANALIZA MOTIVA LJUBAVI I LJUBAVNOG BOLA KOD UZRITSKOG GAZELA I SEVDALINKE
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE MOTIFS OF LOVE AND LOVE PAIN IN THE UDHRI GHAZAL AND THE SEVDALINKA

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents a comparative analysis of the motifs of love and love pain in the sevdalinka, as an authentic form of Bosniak oral lyric poetry, and in Udhri poetry, the dominant poetic expression in the Islamic period of the seventh century. Although spatially and culturally distant, both traditions share similar poetic patterns in expressing erotic desire, longing, and suffering caused by love. Through the analysis of motifs such as the unattainable beloved, tears, nocturnal vigil, and love madness, the paper points to the universality of emotional experience and the affinity of lyrical expression in different cultural contexts. Special attention is devoted to the stylistic and linguistic devices through which an atmosphere of intimacy, pain, and fatalism is constructed in both corpora. While Udhri poetry often idealizes love within tribal and fatalistic frameworks, the sevdalinka approaches it through an introspective and melancholic tone, imbued with Ottoman-Islamic sensibility. In conclusion, the paper confirms that love pain in both traditions appears not only as a consequence of unrequited love, but also as an aesthetic and spiritual value, whereby love becomes a metaphor for existential longing.

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