TELO A SMRŤ, TELO A LÁSKA. MOTÍVY TELA, ZMYSLOV A EMÓCIÍ V POÉZII SAMA VOZÁRA

• Authors: Mihalková Gabriela

Title variants

EN

Body and death, body and love. Motifs of body, senses, and emotions in Samo Vozár’s poetry

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The paper analyses the presence of the motifs of the body, senses and emotions, the degree of representation, functions, and meanings of somaticisms, the ways of aestheticisation of the body and the contradiction or integration of the motifs of the body and the soul in the poetic cycle Ukojenie tôní (Soothing the shadows, 1845) by Samo Vozár (1823 – 1850), a Slovak Romantic poet. Vozár’s sonnets provide ample material for exploring the somatisms involved in the creation of the image (representation, personification) of death, but also of love (both maternal and filial). Corporeal motifs are tied to the object of the lyrical statement (the dead mother) and to the subject of the lyrical statement (her son). Stylistically neutral forms of somatisms prevail. These are used both in the primary sense (naming the parts of the body) and in the figurative one – in the depiction of other phenomena of the external and internal world. They “make visible” the affective experience of the lyrical subject, abstract phenomena connected with the inner experience (the soul), which is manifested in a higher representation of somatisms, which are conventionally considered as carriers, manifestations of mental, emotional movement such as the heart, tears, or blood.

Keywords

EN

LINGUISTIC; IMAGE OF THE BODY; SOMATISMS; SLOVAK ROMANTIC POETRY; SAMO VOZÁR

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 71
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 105 – 120

Contributors

author

Mihalková Gabriela

• Inštitút slovakistiky a mediálnych štúdií, Filozofická fakulta Prešovskej university, 17. novembra 1, 080 01 Prešov, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9278-951X

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/slovlit.2024.71.2.2