Звоно као фолклорни мотив у поезији српских песника друге половине XIX и прве половине XX века
The Bell as a Folklore Motive in Serbian Poetry of the Late 19th and Early 20th Century

Author(s): Nina Aksić
Subject(s): Serbian Literature, Eastern Orthodoxy, Theory of Literature
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: bell; custom and ritual; Serbian poetry
Summary/Abstract: This paper presents a possibility of reading of a poetic literary work as an secondary ethnographical source, on the example of ten selected poems by four important poets of Serbian Romanticism, Realism and Modernism. The central part of the paper actually represents a condensed overview of certain verses from ten poems written by Serbian poets in the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, containing descriptions of customs and rituals that include the bell as a constituent and central element which is, on this occasion, singled out as an important symbol in Serbian tradition. Serbian poets of Romanticism, Realism and Modernism used folk life as an important inspiration for their artistic creations, while respecting the spiritual values of the people they belonged to and trying to immortalize them by transforming them into their poetry.

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