МЕТАПОЕТСКИТЕ СТИХОВИ НА АЦО ШОПОВ / THE METAPOETICS IN ACO ŠOPOV`S VERSES

Abstract

The aim of this research is to discover and interpret the theme segments
of Aco Šopov’s poetry in its most general sense, the essence of the poetic creative process,
and moreover how these segments function as a “poetic manifesto” of our poet, as his
“Ars Poetica”. The working hypothesis is stated that a large number of poems by Šopov are
self-referential, i.e. metaliterary (poetry that speaks about poetry itself) which, certainly
creates the metapoetic specifics in the author’s verses. Intratextuality (the reference
of parts of one poem to parts of another poem by Šopov), but also intertextuality (the
poems of Šopov in the context of poems by other domestic and poets from abroad) will
serve as a comparative methodological basis to prove and demonstrate the existence of
metaliterature in the poetry of Aco Šopov. Therefore, poems from the collections “Merge
with the Silence” (1955), “Not-Being” (1963) and “Reader of the Ashes” (1970) will be taken
into account as the basic corpus (applicative material) of the research.