Intertekstualni susreti: splin i njegove manifestacije u Disovoj i Bodlerovoj poeziji
Intertextual Encounters: Spleen and its Manifestations in the Poetry of Dis and Baudelaire

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the intertextual encounters between poetry of a Serbian poet, Vladislav Petković Dis, and French poet, Charles Baudelaire from a thematic and a lexical perspective. What Dis did was to liberate the Serbian poetry of the 20th century from its shackles of tradition and formalism by instilling it with a novel poetic impulse: gruesome pessimism, melancholy, sorrow, transience, pain, disintegration and death. Around the middle of the 19th century, with his volume The Flowers of Evil, Baudelaire had already defined the modern understanding of poetry and beauty as something that springs out of the ugly and the hideous (aesthetics of ugliness). The motif of the spleen being ubiquitous in the poetry of Dis and Baudelaire, we dedicate particular attention to intertextual relations of the spleen’s different manifestations that are based on pessimism and the conversion of poetry into a reflection of a poet's soul. Therefore, the intention of this work is to show the similarities and, above all, the differences between the manifestations of the spleen in the poetry of these two poets.

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