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ПОЕТСКИОТ ОПУС НА СТОЈАН ТАРАПУЗА (Амбиции и остварувања)
THE POETRY OPUS OF STOJAN TARAPUZA (Ambitions and achievements)

Author(s): Biljana Rajcinova-Nikolova
Subject(s): Literary Texts, Poetry, Macedonian Literature
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: Stojan Tarapuza; poetry; tradition; modernism; specifics; features; determinations

Summary/Abstract: Stojan Tarapuza is a Macedonian poet for children, who belongs to the second generation of contemporary Macedonian authors for children. He has been actively present on the Macedonian literary scene for more than six decades, primarily in the literary genre of children’s poetry, but he also shows his creative curiosity as a story - teller. On the occasion of 90 years since the birth of Tarapuza and 62 years since his creation, the paper referred to his life and work, focusing on the specificities, features and determinations of his poetry opus. For this purpose, the paper analyzed part of his poetry collections and gave the answers to the questions – What kind of poetry are we talking about here? and What are the specificities, the features of this poetry in today’s stage of its development? It was concluded that it is poetry with traditional sensibility, a part with modern sensibility, which is dominated by “the principle of creative freedom and thematic-motive versatility.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 82
  • Page Range: 35-68
  • Page Count: 34
  • Language: Macedonian