LYRICS OF ITHACA AND THE EUROPEAN AND SERBIAN POETRY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
LYRICS OF ITHACA AND THE EUROPEAN AND SERBIAN POETRY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Summary/Abstract: This paper rests on seven theses. The first three theses point to the tendency of the European poets of the First World War to write poetry that went beyond the national and state interests, in other words that was international in its essence. Some of the distinguished European poets wrote anti-war, anti-imperialist and anti-utopian poetry. Dadaist poets in particular displayed this tendency, as well as those who fought in the war (Apollinaire, Owen, Sassoon, Trakl, Stramm), including the ones who supported the idea of war at the beginning and wrote pro-war poetry only to renounce it later (Rilke). Four theses are dedicated to the Serbian poetry, with an emphasis on the poetry of Crnjanski. Although the Serbian poetry of the First World War was predominantly patriotic, imperial (not imperialist) and utopian, realist and anti-utopian poetry also found its place among the patriotic works of poetry (Vladislav Petković Dis). Crnjanski was a fierce critic of the Serbian patriotic poetry of the imperial and utopian orientation. During the war, Crnjanski wrote anti-war and anti-utopian poetry, as well as love poetry, which, written by an avant-garde poet, did not allow itself to be restricted in any way by state borders or national frontiers.

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