Variácie antropocentrizmu v národno-spoločenskej lyrike P. O. Hviezdoslava s prírodnou motivikou
Variations of anthropocentrism in P. O. Hviezdoslav’s national-social lyrics with nature motifs

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with anthropocentrism in the national-social poetry of P. O. Hviezdoslav, based on the postulates of cognitive-linguistic and interdisciplinary, ecologically oriented research. The aim of the paper is to identify the manifestations of anthropocentrism in the expressive plan of P. O. Hviezdoslav’s national-social lyric poetry. The research sample consists of 69 poems that cover the whole period of the writer’s literary activity and in which images of natural elements are exposed in response to social events. In the processing of the text set, an analytical-interpretive and partly comparative approach is applied, which draws on the methodology of general linguistics (stylistics), as well as cognitive, ecologically, and pragmatically oriented linguistics. Given the literary texts under review, the terminological instrumentation of literary science is also important. The results of the research are structured along several lines. In the first case, anthropocentrism refers to the author or the lyrical subject evaluating the intra-textual percipient. The intention to sharply criticize, ridicule and judge the negative activity of the human-destroyer is reflected in the referential expressions. At the level of poetic imagery, anthropocentrism manifests itself in anthropomorphic, but also in naturomorphic, and reific metaphors that derive from the experience of the human body and from sensory empiricism. Finally, it is the central position of man as master of the earth that the lyrical subject exposes to sharp criticism through both poetic imagery and non-poetic language. At the same time, the polemic with the man-demiurg results from a privileging of the theocentric principle over the anthropocentric, but also ecocentric one.

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