TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER TWO
su bo~e, ~ak tamo do zvezda, iste, i u
treJanja. i u kora1at Kako je sve u
vezi, na svetu. "Sumatra" - rekoh, opet,
podrucljivo, sebi.
I thoucht: how wi11 mv home1and creet me?
The cherries are certainlv red bV now,
and the vi11aces are merrv. Look, how
the colours, even there bV the stars, are
the same both as the cherries and as the
ooral! How evervthinc is in oonnection
in this wor1d. "Sumatra" - J: said. acain.
mockinclv, to mvselt.
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Crnjanski's desoription of the oiroumstances in which he
wrote his poem eoho muoh of the poem itse1f in
vooabu1arv. svntax. and imace.
What has been said bv
his triend and the impendinc sense· of his· own return
home becin to intecrate and oreate a mood whioh resu1ts
in an anticipation 01' the tuture.
Linkinc his
anticipation to the cosmiC svmb01 01' the stars, he coes
on to sav that the dominant sensation which he fee1s is
one 01' "nemob" ("powerle.sness U ). The experience 01'
power1essness is a 10ss of the sense of his own beinc in
the immediate present and hiS surroundincs.
However,
the 10ss is part of a process in which the poet fee1s
his ~ntec~ation
into a wider unitv as a Quasi-mvstical
expe~ience.
On the one hand. Crnajsnki's sumatraist
world is one in which all phenomena, includinc the
eXperiencinc subject, form part of a tota1itv.
On the
other hand. he remarks that he repeats the word
"Sumatra" mockinclv. as it aware that the totalitv is
itse1t' on1v the ret'1ection ot' a t'raci1e mood which
cannot endure.
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