МОРФОЛОГИЈА НА ТИШИНАТА / MORPHOLOGY OF SILENCE

Abstract

We approach the poetic book “Merge with the silence” (1955) by Aco
Šopov, which at one time inspired the Macedonian literary public, segmentally: - we
look for “silence” even where it verbally does not exist, and its structure is also explored
- of what it is composed, what is the composition of Šopov’s “silence” in the poems from
the eponymous collection of poems. We look for the silence and stillness of the poet in
the word, in the feelings, in the metaphor, in the oxymoron, in the powerful symbolic
constructions, in the way the poetic syntagms are “shaped.” We do this everywhere in
these verses where silence is mentioned and/or “re-known.” The segmentation in terms
of silence should bring us to the already obvious intimacy of this extraordinary poetry, it
should touch (if this is possible at all) to the deep sensitivity of the poet, to the need for
silence, to the stillness, as one of the great principles in the poetry of Šopov.