ВОДАТА И ВОЗВИШЕНОТО ВО ПОЕЗИЈАТА НА ВЛАДИМИР МАРТИНОВСКИ
THE WATER AND THE SUBLIME IN VLADIMIR MARTINOVSKI’S POETRY

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, an attempt was made to elaborate on the aesthetical and epistemological aspects of Vladimir Martinovski’s poetry from the point of view of the symbolism of "water" and the aesthetic category of "sublime". The main goal of this approach is to show how the terms "water" and "sublime" are manifested in Martinovski’s poetic works, with particular reference to his haiku poems in which a specific east-west view of the relation between man and nature is manifested. On the other hand, to experience a certain enlightening unity with the world, and to apply this experience in a form of successful haiku, is nothing but an expression of momentary enlightenment; an epiphany with which we perceive our own lives and the life in general. These Zen values embodied in the haiku poems of Vladimir Martinovski, as a kind of an admirable satori, can be traced in his subsequent books, which, even when they are not genre-bound to the East, carry within themselves the simplicity and unexpectedness of the eastern world view bound to beauty and sublime, very close to the author’s insights.

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