Kako se A. B. Šimić odmetnuo u budućnost
How A. B. Šimić rebelled into the future

Summary/Abstract: On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the birth of Antun Branko Šimić (1898 - 1925), small under the stars, but so big in the constellation, poet of the Croatian regions at the beginning of the twentieth century, who marked the entire century with his turn in poetry, including ours in to whom we read him as if he were our contemporary, it is a good moment to remember how to graft ourselves into the future of his artistic reflection. With his views on language in art, we can freely say, the future of the true art of words began, which, here, has reached us in the twenty-first century. Therefore, I wonder, unburdened of all prejudices, inherited poetic pathos and technical poetry, can we today read Šimić as his contemporaries perceived him? Motivated by a radical turn in his spirit and soul, in the role of expressing a core truth, he introduces the freedom and brevity of the poem, I would say the sharpness of the verse, the syllable, the stanza, in order to finally expose the pure experience, the core of perception. By reading poetry today, the reader can absorb the experience from the moment it happened. That is, when the poet adopted it in his inner, emotional, psychological and intellectual way as a unique act. That future of poetic expression, which began with a radical change at the beginning of the last century, we are still living today.

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