ОДЈЕЦИ ВЕЛИКЕ СЕОБЕ У ПОЕЗИЈИ ЂОРЂА НЕШИЋА
THE ECHOES OF THE GREAT MIGRATION IN ĐORĐE NEŠIĆ’S POETRY

Summary/Abstract: Đorđe Nešić, one of the most prominent contemporary Serbian writers, also confirms his high status in a few antological poems dedicated to The Great Migration of 1960. In this paper we will analyse his poems dedicated to this crucial event that had far-fetched consequences when it comes to Serbian people’s destiny. In the first part of the paper, we will shortly emphasize the strong echo which The Great Migration has caused in Serbian historical science, literary and cultural history and Serbian literature (especially poetry ). It is also emphasized that this matter is one of the most productive chronotopes of Serbian poetry tradition, which Đorđe Nešić refines with his magnificent poetic individual talent. In challenging sonnet form or lyrically miniature couplets (that make some of his poems from this complex), he calmly talks about The Great Migration throughout its metonymical character (the one of Patriarch Arsenije Čarnojević), by evoking one of its witnesses (Stefan Ravaničanin) or activating the cognition from his own family tradition. Nešić hears and feels the pulse of history with his strong dedication to its main path. At the same time, the poet sees the moment in which these poems are created (marked with the exodus of Serbs from Krajina at the end of the 20th century) in the context of The Great Migration as well as in the relation to migrations as one of the fati of Serbian history. Even when the tone of resignation emerges in some of his poems, they are, as a whole, a sign of victory of life in its most elementary manifestations over pessimism.

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