Tri pjesme u zapisu Himze Polovine
THREE POEMS FROM THE COLLECTION OF LITERARY WORKS OF HIMZO POLOVINA

Summary/Abstract: The three poems written by Himzo Polovina in 1984, according to Melća Pivčić from Livno, represent a significant contribution to the collection of our oral literature, in addition to his enormous contribution to the musical and performance shaping and interpreting of the already collected sevdalinka material. His three poems, by thematic and formal characteristics, can be classified as sevdalinka and ballads. The first poem written by Himzo Polovina belongs to the hybrid forms of sevdalinka, which include the fusion of two or more poetic patterns - in this case, a sevdalinka with a local characteristic motif and a sevdalinka with the motif of describing a maiden’s beauty. The other two written poems are oral ballads, in which the classical oral pattern of poetic creation is more present, on the basis of which we analyzed the thematic and formal characteristics of the oral ballad model, the syncretism of Illyrian and Islamic elements, and emphasized its importance in the analyzes of Bosnian and Bosniak identity. Oral poems can be conceptualized differently, when it comes to motive material, we have seen that motives are used differently varying from song to song, but certain structures of the sevdalinka and the ballad do not change - they always have a recognizable structural and thematic framework.

• Details
• Contents