WORD ON WORD IN POETRY OF BRANKO MILJKOVIC

Abstract

This papar interprets Miljkovic's relfection on the phenomenon of the word, which is singled out as a specific area in his early poems. To show that Miljkovic regards the word as equally meaningful and of the same value as the reality itself is the goal of this paper. The secret of the poem, its language and its words are approached from an ontological point of view. The ontic nature of the word is independent from the empirical reality, it creates its own verbal awakeness. What is also given is the review of Miljkovic's essays, which represent special poetic ventures, and in which the poet provides an explanation for almost all the elements of his poetry: form, entity, truth, word, hermeticalness. The paper also presents the reader with the basic poetic principles Miljkovic took from his great influences Mallarme and Bosquet.