Poetry of Revolt: Unmasking Revolution and Patriotism

Abstract

This paper aims to thematize poetry as a form of protest, revolt, and rebellion. Our analysis seeks the poetry of authors who have a different cultural backgrounds, but who are approached by language and the common literary scene. Ervin Hatibi and Arben Idrizi are distinguished poets, who have bought into Albanian literature unique revolting poetry. Hatibi and Idrizi consider the poetic revolt as an essential literary act of reaction to pressure and oppression. Rebel poets both, however, neither conceive revolt as political resistance, on the contrary, revolt in their poetics arises as intra-literary rebellion which requires the revolting power of human beings, as a condition of renewal and non-alienation in a society in transition. Their point of view provides us with a geo-poetic and cultural background of the literature and culture of revolt in the works of literature of Southeast Europe. The theoretical introduction will be followed by the analysis of the authors’ poems and, in the end, we will generalize about the role that the poetic rebellion plays against the dominant political and cultural forces.