Doživljajnost Hercegovine u pjesništvu Zorana Jurišića
Experientiality of Herzegovina in Zoran Jurisic’s Poetry

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the thematic and style-forming features of Zoran Jurisic’s poetry in his collections published up today: Ship without a rudder, Split, 2000; The sky is my homeland, Podstrana, 2004; A sower in the fields of dream, Split, Podstrana, 2005; Poems forged of tears, Podstrana, 2010; Selected poems, Podstrana, 2013. Most of his poems are characterized by confessional, diary-memoir and confidential tone which shapes the retrospective soliloquy and combines the rational observations with stream of consciousness associations, analyzing the feeling of personal split between individual inner and outer world. Jurisic’s poetry is not led by a structural concept or awareness of semiotic symbolism of language, but a strong impression and significant emotional expression of inner experiences. In the author’s stylistic influences we can recognize the elements of realism, lyrical neo-romanticism as well as the contrasting inputs of expressionism, symbolism and irony directed toward existentialism. In his lyrics we can find references to some Croatian poets (A.B. Simic, T. Ujevic, N. Sop, D. Sudeta etc.) whose traditional influences significantly marked Jurisic’s expressionism and style formation. His poems oscillate in strong contrasts from pessimism to newly awakened vitalism. Particularly comprehensive and impressive expressional collection comprises the native motifs from Herzegovina. Strong, affective, patriotic and solemn rhythm similar to ode is intertwined in these poems with primordial, elementary landscape description, in which virtues and moral dimensions are symbolically highlighted. In his collection of patriotic and landscape poems from Herzegovina, we can spot an archetypal approach and emphasized elements of spatial vitalism upon which the poetic subject rebuilds his own strength.

• Details
• Contents