KONCEPTAS (CONCORS DISCORDIA) M. K. SARBIEVIJAUS ODĖSE IR EPODĖSE
THE CONCEPT (CONCORS DISCORDIA) IN M. K. SARBIEVIJUS’ ODES AND EPODES

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the lyrics by M. K. Sarbievijus where he applied his theory of “the acute style” elaborated in the tractate A Book on Acute and Witty Style or on Seneca and Martial […] (De acuto et arguto liber unicus sive Seneca et Martialis [...]). The paper briefly discusses the understanding of the theory of conceit in the 17th century and reveals how the theory was applied in the poet’s odes and epodes differentiating between the conceptual heavenly and human existence on the one hand and the individual virtue (Privata virtus) on the other hand. The paper interprets the term of concept as a paradoxical union of controversial objects into a harmonious unity, as an inadequacy between the vision and the text (emblematic thinking, the relation of res and verbum). In the odes and epodes, in order to laud virtues or other human qualities, the poet opposes material and spiritual values and uses inventive comparisons. The union of different elements constitutes the essence not only of the works of Sarbievijus but also of the whole literary creation of Baroque.

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