ZAPAŽANJA O OPKORAČENJU U SPISIMA O STIHU SVETOZARA PETROVIĆA
OBSERVATIONS ON ENJAMBMENT IN WRITINGS ON A VERSE BY SVETOZAR PETROVIĆ

Summary/Abstract: By examining all the views and depictions of the use of enjambment in Petrović's writings, the term is thoroughly defined and perceived as being relative to existing definitions, thus differentiating between the usual sense and the extended scope of the term. There are different types of enjambment that can indicate its stylistic function: whether it is a non-metrically motivated expressive use or if is it a process coupled with a metric layer, (i.e. indirectly stylistically marked). There are different aspects of its interpretation, and likewise can have different purposes: whether it enters the domain of poetic freedom and metric characteristics or it has some specific purpose. The very appearance of this figure of speech can indicate the ways verses should be read, thus directing us to the meaning the poet wanted to achieve. Petrović is polemic with previous understandings and interpretations, in particular regarding the issues of specifying historical development and the presence of enjambment in oral folk verse.

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