„Čo oko nevidí, srdce nebolí” alebo motív očí v básnickej zbierke „Reptajúca pokora” Ondreja Štefanka
”Out of sight, out of mind” or the motif of the eye in the poetry collection “Reptajúca pokora” by Ondrej Štefanko

Summary/Abstract: The article is aimed at arguing the existing link between Ondrej Štefanko’s program as a writer, and self-projection while referring to set of poems he wrote before 1989. Our working hypothesis is that through the poetic visual perception of the world a confrontation of projections or self-projections is depicted, which the poet expresses metaphorically through the motif of the eye or vision. Our working methodology is framed by the theory of egolinguistics and the confrontation of self-projections as exposed by the Slovak famous linguist Juraj Dolnı́k and further completed with the cognitive approach to literature and mainly the theory related to emotions. We thus aim at uncovering another dimension of the text, while achieving a different reading and interpretation of the motif of the eye and in the end at better understanding the poet’s implicit poetic mission. Our approach to Ondrej Štefanko’s poems combines the perspective of egolinguistics with the cognitive approach to literature.

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