„Človek, tys' stvorstva koruna? Nemožno mi uveriť…“. Vzťah človeka a prírody v národno-spoločenskej lyrike Pavola Országha Hviezdoslava
“Man, art thou the crown of creation? I can't believe it…”. The Relationship between Man and Nature in Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav’s National-Social Poetry

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the study is the destructive activity of man and natural elements (water, wind or fire) in Pavol OrszághHviezdoslav’s lyrics with national and social themes. The aim is to find out how the author, on the content-motivic andlinguistic-stylistic level, artistically treats the problem of the reciprocally destructive relationship between man and nature.In this context, the analysis of Hviezdoslav’s poetry falls within the research field of general linguistics (especially stylistics),but it also draws on the results of cognitive-linguistic or literary studies. The research sample consists of 187 verbal artistictexts covering the entire period of Hviezdoslav’s literary productivity from the 1860s to the early twentieth century. Fromthe databank, a selection of 69 poems has been subsequently made that correspond to the established content criterion(i.e. the depiction of the destructiveness of nature in relation to man and vice versa). The results of the research are presentedalong two lines: on the one hand, the functional application of the natural element in the figurative plan of overpersonalpoetry; on the other hand, the exposition of harmful human activity. The difference between the depiction of man andnature lies in the fact that the destructive natural power on the plane of poetic imagery completes the idea of an oppressednation, while man is portrayed as the destroyer of the earth in an untransmitted sense.

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