ФИГУРА ПЕСНИКА У ЦИКЛУСУ „КРИТИКА ПОЕЗИЈЕ” БРАНКА МИЉКОВИЋА

The aim of this research was to analyse the figure of the poet within the cycle „The Criticism of Poetry” from Miljković’s book of poetry Origin of Hope (1960). By interpreting several poems from the presented cycle, this paper questions the position of the lyrical subject, while seeking out the possibilities of the lyrical self being identified with poets and thus interpreted as a poetic subject – a poet within the poem or a poet who possibly leads metapoetic dialogues with other poets. The figure of the poet is also considered through Nietzsche’s and Hegel’s philosophical approach to the ambivalent knowledge that is inherent to contemplatives and creators, but which conditions their destruction as well. Through the end of the cycle, this research also problematizes the social position of the poet and the possibility of interpreting the cycle through the title inversion – as poetry of criticism – criticism of future poetics, the disappearance of poetic language, poems and poets in general.