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Early poems by Ján Ondruš (1932 – 2000) published in literary magazines in the late 1950s contain fragments of imagery that can be grasped through the notion of still life and also of what can be thought of as “pre-still-life situations”. Literary still life built from words, lines, and images can also be understood as a staging of an eternally repeating event – a celebration or a feast –, as a renewed vivification of the inanimate nature, a setting in motion of a still image, adding sound to the mute visual artefact or also as a defiance of the chaos, entropy, and transience. The poem “Sobota [Saturday]” (1956) for which the motif of bread is central, offers suitable material for the tackling of the modelling of space in the poetry of Ján Ondruš. In the poet’s staging of the process of baking bread, the event becomes a magnificent secret rite in which elements of fire and earth meet in archetypal and monumental fashion. Moreover, the text can be said to contain a poem in a poem (“Hľaďme, chlieb [Behold, bread]). The result of an ordinary activity of baking bread is presented as an outcome of a magic process. The procedure, in sharp contrast with most poems by the same author that tend to slow down phenomena and events, unwinds in front of the reader as a quick retrospective.
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The article maps in a synecdochical manner the poetic journey made by Ján Ondruš (1932 – 2000) from the elementary lyric situation and mood – The Sonnet to the constellation of dream, natural elements or cycles and poetic imagination – A Drop of Dream to the vivisections, textual-physical exercises typical of the author – From Hospital. The main focus is on analytical reading of the text From Hospital (collection Šialený mesiac /The Mad Moon, 1965): the genre, the semantics of the names and motifs, the constitutive duality of „agent“ and „patient“. The article also maps how the debutant poet´s initial lyric melancholy transforms and becomes more problematic: from the discreetly present traditional iconography to the poetics of corporeality in the sense of „patient“.
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