СКРАЈНУТИ ПЕСНИЧКИ ПРОГРАМ ВАСКА ПОПЕ И ЊЕГОВО ОСТВАРЕЊЕ
NEGLECTED POETIC PROGRAMME OF VASKO POPA AND HIS ACCOMPLISHMENT

Summary/Abstract: The paper starts the analysis with an article by Vasko Popa from 1954 which deserves the status of a programme text and connects it with programme elements of an preface accompanying collections of poems which Popa focused on in the following years as well as with statements of Zoran Mišić, a critic of Popa’s author project. The paper follows the main line of Popa’s poetry through the optics expressed in the mentioned early programme statement neglected by critics: the creation of “universal poetry” staying “devoted to the language of the homeland”, i.e. symbolic and mythological resources which that language bears. As a revolutionary and a bearer of faith in poetry as a redeeming and higher reality, trust in ancient words with which he communicated with ancestors, Popa was the first one to fully accomplish and spread across the globe a succinct thought on modern expression of a “folk genius” that originated in the avant-garde generation on Serbian as universal symbols. If the poetic battle won with the collection Kora (1953) was largely extorted by regressive cultural circumstances, then the mature break made with the books Uspravna zemlja (1972) and Vučja so (1975), even with the book Živo meso (1975) as an epilogue, represented a mythical and poetic move that modern Serbian poetry was preparing a long time.

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