ŽIVOT I SMRT-STVARNOST I SNOVIĐENJA BALKANSKI DISKURS BRANKA MILJKOVIĆA VS ANGLOFONOG DISKURSA AMERIČKOG JUGA TENESI VILIJAMSA
LIFE AND DEATH-REALITY AND DREAM-PLAYS: THE BALKAN DISCOURSE OF BRANKO MILJKOVIC VS. THE ANGLOPHONE DISCOURSE OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS' AMERICAN SOUTH

Summary/Abstract: This writing compares poetical Balkan discourse of Branko Miljkovic and dramatic anglophone discourse of American dramatist Tennessee Williams. Miljkovic was a poet of neosymbolism style, a philosopher among the poets in the period of 1960s, and his poetry was directed toward tradition, mythology and folklore. His poems were distantiated from its author, and symbol became conventional means of expression. The general idea of his poems Bequest of Orpheus and Triptych for Euridica establish the authenticity of the above mentioned themes. Some of the symbols, such as fire, bird, emptiness, flowers, death denote Sun, life, Phoenix, chasm, ending and beginning, carry out semantic and aesthetic constrative electricity. Tennessee Williams, as well as Branko Miljkovic, in his drama Orpheus Descending represents his protagonists as humans in pursue for freedom, so did he being engaged in art. The quest for meaning and sense, up to the degree where imagination and reality blend together, where uncertainness becomes activity, loneliness vivifics in discursive experience of metaphor are the main ideas of his plays, in which social and psychological conflict collide through eroticization and vanish afterwards in the mythology of the American South.

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