Muusapoja Pojad Nooruse Kihermeid II
The Sons of the Son of the Muses: Literary Marginalia in the „Noorus” Magazine of the 1960s, Part II

Summary/Abstract: This entry is a continuation to the article „Sly Ain and the Old Heathen: Literary Marginalia in the „Noorus” Magazine of the 1960s, Part I (Keel ja Kirjandus 2016, 7: 489-503), which discussed the educating literary commentary published by mentor Ain Kaalep alias O. Muusapoeg ’lit. O. Son of the Muses’ in the 1960s editions of the magazine Noorus („Youth”). It highlighted the rhetoric of irony between the lines, which could be regarded as cultural counterpropaganda addressed to the younger generation of Soviet Estonia. Inspired by the same genre and idea, Lea Tormis wrote seven reflections on theatre events. Her younger brother, poet PaulEerik Rummo, under the alias Poor Yorick, published his seven „marginals” partly in playful dialogue with Kaalep. To the same context belongs Jaak Põldmäe’s „School of Poetics” which appeared in six parts. His influential lessons introduced a new structuralist understanding of the form of poetry, based on the formalist approach to the poetic function of language. The young scholar was keen to explain the basics of poetic language usage, metrics and different verse systems, as well as rhyme, sound effects, poetic license, and main figures of speech used in Estonian poetry.

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