МИНИЈАТУРИТЕ НА АЦО ШОПОВ

Abstract

The focus of our study are the “Miniatures” of Aco Šopov, published in the
collection “Merge with Silence” in 1955. Chronologically and content-wise, these are songs
that belong to modernism as a literary movement. They are intimate, real records written
like brief impressions. According to A. Prokopiev, these songs are from Šopov’s intimist
phase, exciting and sublime short poetic forms in which the poet is like a painter, or rather a
photographer of moments from reality (“Leaf”, “Stork”, “Peg”) through which he expresses
his deep, intimate feelings that are not are momentary, but more like state of the soul. Aco
Šopov is gentle, nostalgic in them and reveals himself as a caring parent (“Deception”). In
“Miniatures” the poet Aco Šopov does not show brutality as in other collections of poetry.
Actually, in every poem and collection, a new dimension of the personality of Šopov is
exposed. Formally and content-wise, “the Miniatures” of Sopov is different from his other
poems of his opus. According to Sonja Stojmenska – Elzeser, “the Miniatures of Šopov”
are poetic crocs - drawings, momentary cuts from a landscape that carry deep reflective
content. It is precisely on these miniature poetic flashes, on their intimate depth and
reflexivity that they carry within themselves our perception on the verses will be shown.