МИЛОВАН ДАНОЈЛИЋ: КА ПОЕТИЦИ ВРХУНСКЕ ЈЕДНОСТАВНОСТИ
MILOVAN DANOJLIĆ: TOWARDS THE POETICS OF SUPREME SIMPLICITY

Summary/Abstract: Literary critics generally think that after the first collections of poetry (Urođe- nički psalmi [Native Psalms], 1957; Nedelja [Sunday], 1959; Noćno proleće [Night Spring], 1960), which are dominated by the emotions of peril, anguish, insecurity, emptiness and loneliness, a different poetic note occurred in Danojlić’s emotional register. The paper is trying to clarify the nature of the poetic transformation of the poet Milovan Danojlić, which happened at the time of the poet’s aspiration for the “supreme simplicity”. The changes are noticeable in the gradual change in the collections Sunday and Night Spring, and in his reception of the contemporary literary criticism. A special part in the poetic transformation was played by Danojlić’s discovery of the poetic key in the nature of a children’s poem, because it permanently redirected his “singing and thinking” in that part of the creative opus which is usually termed “for adults”. The turn towards children’s literature is interpreted as an organic extension of something that the poet felt as a basic need in his books for adults, resulting in deeply permeating connections between these two poetic corpora: being shifted from a deeply “inferior” sphere, children’s literature is joined in the center of the literary discussions on the modernity of poetry, and poetry for adults enriches its poetic experience burdened with complex demands. The phenomenon of a naive poem is therefore seen as “a possibility of an expression” which is achieved to an almost equal extent in the children’s literature as well as in the other one.

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