МАДРИГАЛИ ВЕЛИМИРА ЛУКИЋА
MADRIGALS OF VELIMIR LUKIĆ

Summary/Abstract: Individual stylization of madrigals in Serbian literature first appeared in the second half of the 20th century in poets whose intention was modernization of forms standardized by tradition. Poet and playwright Velimir Lukić, one of the members of the Serbian neosymbolist group, stands out in the use of poems in the form of the madrigal. In the collection entitled Madrigals and Other Poems (1967), there are 17 poems - miniatures conjoined into the cycle Madrigals or the sleeping hour, harmonized with the traditional Petrarchan madrigal form. All madrigals of Lukić are elliptical, so the factor that unites the cycle is not only a determined form, but also a way of structuring verses, shaping thoughts, inclined to parataxic relation. The applied form, tercets primarily, and the very poetics of hinting a moment or an impression with as few words as possible, indicates the overlapping of this form with poetics and compositional principle of haiku, which we recognize as a characteristic neosymbolist poetic strategy when dealing with determined forms.

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