ПОЕТСКИОТ ОПУС НА МАТЕЈА МАТЕВСКИ
THE POETRY OPUS OF MATEJA MATEVSKI

Summary/Abstract: Istanbul, the birth city of the poet, is a metaphorical symbol of Matevski’s poetry. As Istanbul magically connects and brings together the differences, Matevski’s poetry opens for us the oxymoronic worlds, which neither can, nor want to lock themselves in any frames, both national, ethnic or stylistic. It is a poetry of self-knowledge in one turning time, during the adoption of modernism. But Matevski has emerged as a poet who breaks up, or even better who suspends, the established tradition, without being confronted. The subjective-sentimental view of the world through pessimistic-confessional sensations, which are features of the dominant intimate lyrics of that moment, are incorporated into poet’s experience. In it, the nature is a kind of mediator, which turns personal feelings into super-personal, symbolic image. Hence thoughtfulness and sense of fair vision overcome the frames of the intimate poetry. It is that semantic-contemplation side of the poetry of Matevski that marks the Macedonian modernism, which follows the European symbolists and surrealists. That poetry does not require description, but revealing, perfect balance between thoughtfulness and emotional. Poetics of Matevski is an effort to get into the drama of existence in its trans-historical sense, leading to the identification and self-understanding. It demonstrates the "new feeling in the world" in which personal vision has two reliable constants: the yearning and the hope. The poet's hope is recognized in cosmopolitanism, in the space, not in time.

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