The Mysterie of Tomaz Salamun's poetry

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Well edited by Christopher Merrill, The Four Questions Of Melancholy is a collection of poetry containing selections from each of Tomaz Salamun's 25 works. Although images of the larger world, war, politics, and peace pervade his works, there are also images that speak to the more personal and immediate. This paper analyzes the concept of Tomaz Salamun's poetry, attempts to deepen our understanding of the struggle endured by a Slovenian poet who does not see freedom everywhere in the streets.

The poetry of Tomaz Salamun criticizes the often-absurd universe of politicians, and legends emergent out of everyday events. Without a doubt the Leninist-Stalinist society in which Salamun is raised plays a major role in his development as a poet. During Tito's regime in Yugoslavia, poets could be arrested and could spend a year in jail for impolite references to any number of public officials. While in other circumstances, political repression raises a feeling of revolution among artists and especially in poetry of revolt; rejection and denouncement, in much of Eastern European poetry takes on a much more rebellious, clever and even mocking tone. It is because Salamun is a free man who likes his country and

You point at the tree with your hand,

He lies down in twilight, he swims in twilight..." (Salamun 77).

Sooner or later our tribe always betrays us or we run away from it, sometimes it is because we are asked to do some things that our moral standards won't agree with, that is why poets like Salamun have no alternative but to become traitors, a Frankenstein doomed to leave, condemned to revealing truths that unsettle as much as they inspire. This truth that eats people alive that makes people wait in line in front of a shop to get sometimes a piece of bread or meat shows that communism is not always the best answer. In front of this poverty, the author chooses not to remain silent. The main denunciation of Salamun is in the poem "I See", in which the author talks about a "hunter" that disguises himself into sunlight. This hunter who can only been seen has Staline disguised into a sunlight that shines over the years of lies. The personification of objects to talk about problems of society throughout a poem can only be a sign of critique. The use of the two words "I see" again and again is an anaphoric way to make sure that the repetition is well understood by the readers. The author goes around his town and sees and feels the sadness around him, the churches that are destroyed, the flowers full of tears that are usually a sign of romance and love. When Salamun says, "I see corn, how the army goes after the scent of cantaloupe, the night smells in Ca' Foscari." he is saying that now the army is gone and the soil can now find the en

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Approximate Word count = 1043
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English