БЛАЖЕ КОНЕСКИ – ЗЕМЈАТА И ЉУБОВТА (1948) – ЗА КОЛЕКТИВНИОТ МЕНТАЛИТЕТ И НАЦИОНАЛНОТО СЕБЕСОЗНАНИЕ
BLAZHE KONESKI – THE LAND AND LOVE (1948) – ON PATRIOTIC MENTALITY AND NATIONAL SELF-COGNITION

Summary/Abstract: This year the collection of poems Land And Love (1948) marks 70 years since the first publication for the Macedonian cultural and scientific public. It represents the dominant patriotic position addressing specific themes in 13 poems. Specifically, the themes of the poems are related to the homeland and the concept of patriotism. Regardless of the way of expressing it, we might share nothing new regarding the early poetry of the giant of the Macedonian culture of the 20th century – Blazhe Koneski. The feeling is equal to the impression when someone is about to „interpret“ Koneski, even though every repeated approach to his poetry is exiting again. It is always challenging and it is never hard. This paper tries to approach the collective (read: national, Macedonian) mentality in the 13 poems, in the collection Land And Love, as it is in its edition from 1981. The analysis does not emphasize the treatment of the homeland theme, because that is something familiar to the reader since the early school years. Our effort is reduced to review of at least one verse of each poem in this collection where the Macedonian national mentality is „visible“. We do not strive for greater ambition than to show (of course, we do not have to prove) that the national mentality is present, i.e. omnipresent and that Land And Love is just an echo, a reaction of the poet’s high national self-cognition.

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