Oral tradition and folk belief in the cycles of Vasko Popa’s poems
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УСМЕНА ПРЕДАЊА И ФОЛКЛОРНА ВЕРОВАЊА У ЦИКЛУСУ ПЕСАМА „САВИН ИЗВОР“ ВАСКА ПОПЕ
Oral tradition and folk belief in the cycles of Vasko Popa’s poems „Savin izvor“

Author(s): Nina Marković
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Serbian Literature, Philology
Published by: Универзитет у Крагујевцу
Keywords: Vasko Popa;poetical pictures; oral tradition;folklore beliefs; myth

Summary/Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is noticing and analyzing Popa’s poetical pictures that shed completely new light on our oral tradition. In his metaphors and his symbols we could notice the presence of oral tradition about St. Sava as well as many layers of different systems of the folklore beliefs and folklore tradition. Interpreting the symbols such as water, rainbow, wolf, rooster, chains, stick, rock, bees etc., Popa has accomplished an extraordinary artistic transposition and modification of the folklore templates by using the myth reflection, in other words, he has been using the beliefs about St. Sava as a wolf shepherd. In only eight poems Popa has succeed to artistically and in a suggestive way represent the deepest mythical layers of the St Sava’s character. In doing this, Popa has built the Sava’s character sometimes as an ambivalent and sometimes as the compound of the divine and heavenly virtues and categories. The poem cycle “Savin izvor” represents one rounded and harmonious unity in which Popa has united all the elements of St. Sava’s poetic biography.

  • Issue Year: XIV/2013
  • Issue No: 50
  • Page Range: 103-115
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Serbian