ПОЕТСКАТА ОНТОЛОГИЈА НА АЦО ШОПОВ / ACO ŠOPOV`S ONTOLOGY OF POETRY

Abstract

The paper approaches several collections of poetry from the last cycle of Aco
Šopov’s work: “Not-Being”, “Reader of the Ashes” and “The Song of the Black Woman”,
simultaneously through an ontological and archetypal interpretive matrix. The process
of creating poetic images is followed, through which the ontological shifting of the
borders of the lyrical subject is outlined and its merging into something transcendent
(the collective past, objective reality, eroticism, etc.) takes place. The aim is to explain the
semantic closeness between the term not-being and mythological-archaic conceptions:
biblical and Eastern-ancient poetics, where not-being, among other things, is a pretext
for the initiation of poetic creation. The collective ancient images of fire, water, body,
word, blood, wood, black color, are repeated in all the collections and cycles of Šopov’s
poetry, generate further derived images (fire-drought-ashes, water-lake-eyes, body-birth-
word), and sometimes they are combined with each other. It is essential to perceive the
transformation of these poetic images as one moves from one poetry collection to another.
We will follow the theory of the imaginary to derive the key dynamics of the processes
of cosmogony, anthropogony, and eschatology that create the creative force of the not-
being. Our goal is to find out what the new ontological function that archetypal images get
through Šopov’s metaphor and poetics consists of.