Odkaz, apel a posolstvo ako žánrové formy príležitostnej lyriky (v poézii Vladimíra Roya, Martina Rázusa a Štefana Krčméryho)
Legacy, Appeal and Message as Genre Forms of Occasional Lyric (in Poetry by Vladimír Roy, Martin Rázus and Štefan Krčméry)

Summary/Abstract: In Slovak poetry written in the early 20th century genres of occasional poetry were an integral part of the contemporary poetic register. Dedicated poetry – motivated by birth or death anniversaries of important people, establishments or anniversaries of significant institutions as well as current events of political, social, cultural and literary life at that time – was a way for writers to respond to individual factual stimuli, which were, however, enriched with powerful emotional or evaluative connotations as part of their literary (aesthetic) reflection. A specific genre form of this kind of lyric included poetic appeals, messages and legacies, which were already in their titles addressed to group recipients. One of such collective addressees of occasional, dedicated poetry was the community of poets, more accurately characterized by their national, generational and poetological affiliation or affinity. In the 1920s the rhetoric genre forms of legacy, message and appeal were updated by a number of Slovak poets including three authors associated with Slovak modernism: Martin Rázus, Vladimír Roy and Štefan Krčméry. They did it with various intentions and intensity, however, they together formulated anew the question of the relation between an artist-individualist and a nationally as well as professionally distinct group of creative people, and politics and poetics. In the context of the contemporary tension between traditionalism and modernism it was supposed to declare close links with tradition, positive vitality and an active stance on reality.

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