ПОЕТИЧКИ ОДРАЗИ ДЕЛА ЈОВАНА ДУЧИЋА У ПОЕЗИЈИ ИВАНА В. ЛАЛИЋА – МОТИВ МОРА
POETIC REFLECTIONS OF THE WORK OF JOVAN DUČIĆ IN THE POETRY OF IVAN V. LALIĆ – THE SEA MOTIF

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to explore the poetic legacy in the poetry of Ivan V. Lalić and to point out Lalić’s attitude towards Jovan Dučić, who is the poet with the highest number of poems present in the Anthology of Modern Serbian Lyric by Bogdan Popović – astounding thirty-three. The mentioned attitude is explored in this paper through the analysis of the sea motif, and it is a mysterious one as Lalić has never written an essay on Dučić, nor does his poetry contain the quotations or reminiscences from the poetry of Dučić. Instead, Lalić only alludes to Dučić on several occasions in his statements, placing him in the group of poets whose poetics he inherited. What Lalić was fascinated by with regards to Dučić was the form – the cult of form which the most important poet of Serbian modernist movement piously cultivated, which can be seen in the programmatic essay A Monument to Vojislav – as well as the array of themes and motifs, which we have chosen by analysing the sea motifs in both poets’ works. Both poets perceive the sea as a privileged space, with the difference that Dučić represents the sea as the mirror of the sky and always calm, whereas Lalić develops the sea motif in a more complex way since the sea is perceived as a totality of human fates ranging from the Antiquity to the present day.

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