ЧОВЕКОТ КАКО МЕТАФОРА ВО ПОЕЗИЈАТА НА АЦО ШОПОВ / THE METAPHOR OF MAN IN THE POETRY OF ACO ŠOPOV

Abstract

Aco Šopov is the poet from the Macedonian contemporary poetry era that gave
the poetic word a new meaning. Šopov’s lyricism is inseparable from the metaphorical
component of his poetry; they arise from each other, complement and feed each other.
The lyricism fills the metaphor, makes it empty and vice versa i.e. the associations through
which the exposure of the metaphor is used reveals his lyrical intention. Strongly attached
to his lyrical principle, Šopov is the poet with the quality of his poetic fate and announced
the new vision for poetry in which tradition and modernity will enter in symbiosis.
Although criticism does not single out metaphoricity as a separate and dominant category
in Šopov’s poetry, it is still a fact that it is embedded in the verse and that it exists in the
visible layers of the poem. In this paper, an attempt to shed light on the metaphor will be
made, in the essence of which the presence of the basic element - the human being - is
read. The moment of the so-called delayed recognition or reading the metaphor will be
discussed because his poetry has no visible position of the metaphoricity in the poetic
speech.