Pjesništvo Mile Stojića: od lirske apstrakcije do angažiranog svjedočenja
Poetry of Mile Stojić: From Lyrical Abstraction to Engaged Testimony

Summary/Abstract: Literary criticism used to divide poetic opus of Mile Stojić, which consists of twelve collections, into two parts, while using war cataclysm that hit Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia in the nineties as a dividing line. Indeed the changes in his poetry are obvious and profound. They concern the thematic repertoire, the nature of the lyrical writing, positions from which the subject speaks, intonations of the poem, etc. The author built his poetic world on the crossroad of an individual biography and a historical tale. By thematizing his own experience and destiny, his lyrical subject sketches out the experience and destiny of the collective to which he belongs. He tackles eternal themes such as life, love, peace, joy, or dreams. He usually deals with them in a way to confront them with their opposites – death, hatred, war, sadness, reality. By creating series of contrasts, this poet underlines the gap between the desired and the real state of the world and forms the key figures of his poetry: paradox and oxymoron. The paper describes the essential characteristics of Stojić’s poetic writing and its evolution.

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