“Man, art thou the crown of creation? I can't believe it…”. The Relationship between Man and Nature in Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav’s National-Social Poetry
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https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2023.32.19Keywords:
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, national-social poetry, natural element, stylistic analysisAbstract
The subject of the study is the destructive activity of man and natural elements (water, wind or fire) in Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav’s lyrics with national and social themes. The aim is to find out how the author, on the content-motivic and linguistic-stylistic level, artistically treats the problem of the reciprocally destructive relationship between man and nature. In this context, the analysis of Hviezdoslav’s poetry falls within the research field of general linguistics (especially stylistics), but it also draws on the results of cognitive-linguistic or literary studies. The research sample consists of 187 verbal artistic texts covering the entire period of Hviezdoslav’s literary productivity from the 1860s to the early twentieth century. From the databank, a selection of 69 poems has been subsequently made that correspond to the established content criterion
(i.e. the depiction of the destructiveness of nature in relation to man and vice versa). The results of the research are presented along two lines: on the one hand, the functional application of the natural element in the figurative plan of overpersonal poetry; on the other hand, the exposition of harmful human activity. The difference between the depiction of man and nature lies in the fact that the destructive natural power on the plane of poetic imagery completes the idea of an oppressed nation, while man is portrayed as the destroyer of the earth in an untransmitted sense.
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