Зборник на трудови од Меѓународната научна конференција „Сто години од раѓањето на Ацо Шопов“ Филолошки факултет - Штип 25-26 мај, 2023
ПОСТАПКАТА „ОЧУДУВАЊЕ“ ВО ПРЕПЕЈУВАЊЕТО НА АЦО ШОПОВ НА ИТАЛИЈАНСКИ ЈАЗИК / THE “ESTRANGEMENT” TECHNIQUE IN THE ACO ŠOPOV’S POETRY TRANSLATION IN ITALIAN LANGUAGE
The aim of this paper is to present the poetry of Aco Šopov as a translation challenge for Italian language translators in the context of the presence of Macedonian poetry translated into Italian. The first part offers a general overview of the Macedonian poetry translations published in Italy. Furthermore, Aco Šopov's verses in Italian, published in collections, anthologies and journals, starting from the middle of the twentieth century until today, are presented. The second part of the paper is analytical and focuses on the general characteristics of Aco Šopov's poetry at the phonological, morphosyntactic, lexical and semantic level, which represent a challenge for the translator, taking into consideration the "estrangement effects” he faced, which required different levels of “estrangement techniques” in the translation. A series of examples from several translated poems: Orrendamorte, Sangue abyssale, Poesia, Strada comune, Preghiera per un'ancora introvabile parola ordinaria, Sesta preghiera del mio corpo, Nona preghiera del mio corpo, Il venire lento del fuoco (each translated by Anastasia Gjurchinova and Mia Leconte), Poesia, Amore, Questà beltà (translated by Giacomo Scotti) and Sulla riva del lago (translated by Augusto Fonseca) are presented and different solutions have been detected in the work of different translators.
Copyright (c) 2023 Зборник на трудови од Меѓународната научна конференција „Сто години од раѓањето на Ацо Шопов“ Филолошки факултет - Штип 25-26 мај, 2023
ЛИТЕРАТУРНИТЕ ГЛЕДИШТА НА АЦО ШОПОВ / LITERATURE ASPECTS OF ACO ŠOPOV
Aco Šopov, one of the young poets who announced the post-war Macedonian poetic spring. Four decades after his physical death, he is still one of the most read and quoted Macedonian poets. In addition to his significant poetic oeuvre, his thoughts, attitudes and ideas about literature, culture and art in general are still relevant today. Examining his interviews, essays, short writings, the clear vision he had for the development of Macedonian art within the framework of the then Yugoslav, but also more widely, European and world art and culture stands out. “Creative Wandering” by Aco Šopov reveals to us a poet who found his poetics, who deeply and fundamentally penetrated not only into literature, but through his literary thoughts thoroughly analyzed the entire socio-political situation that was undoubtedly reflected in every aspect of life, including in literature. Šopov dealt with the aesthetics of poetry, but also with the messages that the poem brings and should bring, and with the economic reasons that make it possible or impossible to publish Macedonian literature. In this paper we will analyze the literary views of the poet expressed in numerous articles and interviews, but also through his poetry.
ПОЕТСКИОТ ОПУС НА АЦО ШОПОВ ВО УЧЕБНИЦИТЕ ПО МАКЕДОНСКИ ЈАЗИК И ЛИТЕРАТУРА / THE POETRY OF ACO ŠOPOV IN THE TEXTBOOKS OF MACEDONIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Aco Šopov is one of the most outstanding poets from the first generation of Macedonian post-war writers, who soared to the literary heights through the verses poured out from the depth of the lyrical soul. For the purposes of this paper, analysis of the representation of his poetry in the curricula for secondary and primary education, in the Macedonian language textbooks for primary education (from VI to IX grades) will be made along with the same analysis in the Macedonian language and literature textbooks for secondary education, high school education and secondary vocational education (four- year and three-year). Within this analysis, the poems which are represented in the program areas of literature and reading are discussed, what motifs they deal with, what is the poet’s language expression, etc.
АЦО ШОПОВ ВО НАСТАВАТА ПО МАКЕДОНСКИ ЈАЗИК/ ACO ŠOPOV IN MACEDONIAN LANGUAGE TEA
ЖИВОТОТ И ТВОРЕШТВОТО НА АЦО ШОПОВ ВО НАСТАВАТА ПО МАКЕДОНСКИ ЈАЗИК / LIFE AND WORK OF ACO ŠOPOV IN MACEDONIAN LANGUAGE TEACHING
Examining the curricula and textbooks for the Macedonian language subject for primary and secondary education, we come across his name - Aco Šopov. The name is represented as a methodical unit towards the last years of the nine-year primary education (in VII, VIII and IX grade school), as well as in secondary education: in III year – in the three- year secondary professional education; in IV year – reformed high school education; in the IV year – secondary professional education with a duration of four years; and in the IV year program for students from other communities. On this occasion, we are making an attempt to review all methodological units related to Šopov and their representation in current textbooks on the Macedonian language subject. Keywords: Aco Šopov, Macedonian language teaching, Curricula, Macedonian language Textbooks, primary and secondary Education.
ХУМАНИЗАЦИЈА НА ЛИЧНОСТА НА УЧЕНИКОТ ПРЕКУ ПОЕЗИЈАТА НА АЦО ШОПОВ / HUMANIZATION OF THE STUDENT’S PERSONALITY THROUGH THE POETRY OF ACO ŠOPOV
Born opposite the western flank of the Isar, in Gorno Maalo, in a small house at “Solunska” no. 10, Aleksandar (Aco) Gjorgi Zafirov - Sopov, will spend his childhood, from birth until he joined the partisans in 1943.From the first integral poetic manifestation - “Poems” (1944), through “Rail of youth” (1947 together with S. Janevski), the verses written by our hands about pain and joy that merge with the silence and say that the wind brings good weather come out the extraordinary books “Not-being”, “Reader of the ashes” and “The song of the black woman”, until the last poetic testament “The tree on the hill” (1980), Sopov creates incredible humanistic messages, and the mission of his literature is philanthropy. Through the metaphor, Aco reveals the human soul and sends a message on how to be better, to be clean, to progress. Charred palms indicate working and clean hands and that one must work to survive. Reading Sopov’s poetry, through his three-phase poetic opus, it is inevitable that we perceive his humanistic side, which we also convey to the students by processing part of his poetry. Through a small part of his poetry, the students find the light in the darkness because it always manages to suppress the darkness and thus humanize their personality, to know that good defeats evil.
АЦО ШОПОВ ВО НАСТАВАТА ПО МАКЕДОНСКИ ЈАЗИК И ЛИТЕРАТУРА ВО СРЕДНОТО ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ / ACO ŠOPOV`S POETRY IN MACEDONIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE TEACHING
The poet Aco Šopov is present in the curricula of Macedonian language and literature in secondary high school and in secondary vocational education in the fourth year of education. By the end of the studies about Aco Šopov, his life and his writing, students should be able to systematize the motifs and preoccupations of the poetry of the poet Aco Šopov, as well as be able to present his development in poetry - from an engaged poet to a poet of intimate lyrics. When achieving this learning outcome, students need to adopt the terms that are most often associated with Šopov’s poetry: engaging lyrics, intimate lyrics and reflective lyrics, but also to recognize his verses, composition and stylistic figures of the poetry. Also, students are expected to base their interpretations on the recognized figures, so that they will be able to determine the meanings of the selected poems and their aesthetic qualities. Finally, the students are expected to discuss, value and comment the verses of the poet Šopov, to know his role and significance in the development of Macedonian poetry as well as its poetry in general. The recommended methods for the realization of this teaching content - The poetry of Aco Šopov, are the method of teaching interpretation, the monologue-dialogue and the text method. This paper will deal with a specific description of the approach in the analysis and interpretation of some of Aco Šopov’s poetry represented in the curricula of Macedonian language and literature teaching in secondary education, whereby the proposed methods will be illustrated with examples and concrete activities for the students.
КОСМОПОЛИТСКАТА ПОЕТСКА ВИЗИЈА НА АЦО ШОПОВ / COSMOPOLITAN POETIC VISION OF ACO ŠOPOV
The poetry of Aco Šopov has fundamental importance for the development of the lyric expression in Macedonian contemporary literature. The scholars divide his opus in several phases, but what is most important is that his poems show coherent poetics, recognizable and based on two constant principles: deep intimacy and cosmopolitan spirit. His poetry is complex vision, full of symbols and mythical imaginations, in accordance with the poetics of symbolism and neo-symbolism. This vision hasn’t lost its relevance during the time. On the contrary, it is even more powerful today, in the 21 st century, especially with its main idea of cultivating respect for differences of identity of all peoples of the world and promoting the value of the unity of diversity. That is why his poetry is widely accepted among readers with different ethnic and linguistic background.
ШОПОВ ЗА СВЕТОТ – СВЕТОТ ЗА ШОПОВ/ ŠOPOV FOR THE WORLD – THE WORLD FOR ŠOPOV
АЦО ШОПОВ ВО СЛОВАЧКИОТ КНИЖЕВЕН И КУЛТУРЕН АРЕАЛ / ACO ŠOPOV IN THE SLOVAK LITERATURE AND CULTURAL RANGE
The purpose of the paper is to offer a detailed archival review of publications related to the reception of the life art opus and literary works of the famous Macedonian poet Aco Šopov in the Slovak environment. We are presenting in an analytical way all the translations of his poems in the Slovak language, which were realized on several occasions in periodical literary magazines, as well as in anthological and encyclopedic editions published in the territory of today’s Slovakia, but also in Vojvodina, where which is still inhabited by a large Slovak minority. The complete reception shown testifies to the fact that Šopov was not unknown to the Slovak cultural public, although there is a lack of concrete sustained studies of his literary work written by Slovak scholars.
ЕЛЕМЕНТИТЕ НА ЕГЗОТИЗАМ ВО НЕКОИ ПРЕПЕВИ НА АЦО ШОПОВ ОД ФРАНЦУСКИ НА МАКЕДОНСКИ ЈАЗИК (осврт кон препеви на поезијата на Леополд Седар Сенгор) / THE ELEMENTS OF EGZOTISM IN SOME ADAPTATIONS OF ACO ŠOPOV`S POETRY FROM FRENCH TO MACEDONIAN LANGUAGE
This paper aims to revisit Šopov’s translations from French to Macedonian and to analyze, more specifically, his translations of poems by the Senegalese poet Leopold Sedar Senghor, which deserve a particular place in Šopov’s translation activity. Translating Senghor not only means translating the meaning of his poetic text but also Senghor’s ideological commitment, who, in his poetry, aspires to authentically present the Senegalese environment, emphasizing the specificities of African, historical, linguistic, and cultural identity. It is precisely this intention of Senghor that justifies the presence of exotic elements that Šopov has integrated with lots of affection and respect into his Macedonian translations. The work will involve identifying and grouping lexical elements of exoticism, as well as analyzing the translation strategy in Šopov’s Macedonian translations of Senghor’s poems.”
ЗАСТАПЕНОСТА НА СУФИКСНИТЕ ДЕРИВАТИ ВО ПОЕЗИЈАТА НА АЦО ШОПОВ И НИВНИ ПРЕВОДНИ ЕКВИВАЛЕНТИ ВО ГЕРМАНСКИОТ ЈАЗИК
This paper looks into the derivatives formed by suffixes in Macedonian language compared to their equivalents in German language. Thus, morphological and translational analysis of examples found in random songs of Aco Šopov translated in German language by Ina Jun Broda are going to be discussed. The purpose of this study is to see to what extent the suffix derivates in poetry are found, which model is used for their formation and a comment is given on the process of translation considering its translation in German language. In our opinion, the results of this study are most certain if taken into account that the style of Aco Šopov is such that uses already made derivates or creates new words using explicit derivation using the word-formation models from one hand and the German language on the other which is rich in words formed by derivation.
ПРЕПЕВИТЕ НА ПОЕЗИЈАТА НА АЦО ШОПОВ НА РУСКИ ЈАЗИК / THE ADAPTATIONS OF ACO ŠOPOV`S POETRY IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
This article is dedicated to the translations of Aco Šopov’s poetry into Russian. It reviews the editions that appeared in the USSR and the Russian Federation, in which Šopov’s lyrics are represented. Also, with short comments, we briefly refer to several Russian translations.
РЕЦЕПЦИЯ НА ТВОРЧЕСТВОТО НА АЦО ШОПОВ В БЪЛГАРИЯ (В КОНТЕКСТА НА РЕЦЕПЦИЯТА НА МАКЕДОНСКАТА ЛИТЕРАТУРА СЛЕД 1990 г.) / THE RECEPTION OF ACO ŠOPOV`S WORK IN BULGARIA (in the context of the reception of Macedonian literature after 1990)
This paper comments the reception of Aco Šopov’s poetry in Bulgaria in the context of the reception of the Macedonian literature after 1990. The tendencies of translation dynamics in Macedonian literature, genre and publication strategies are analyzed. The focus is put on the translation reception of Aco Šopov in the Bulgarian environment: published collection, presence in the specialized periodical and represented anthology volumes etc. The position of Šopov is emphasized in the process of forming the Bulgarian perception for the Macedonian contemporary literature, more precisely the Macedonian poetry.
ХЕТЕРОЛОШКИТЕ АСПЕКТИ ВО ПОЕЗИЈАТА НА АЦО ШОПОВ / HETEROLOGY ASPECTS OF ACO ŠOPOV`S POETRY
Aco Šopov is a poet who, with the power of his pen, with the power of his poetic imagination, with the power of his words, marked the thread along which contemporary Macedonian poetry moved. If the folk poem marked his first poetic phase, already in the later poems, especially with the idea of Not-being, the personal and the individual merge with the folk poem on a higher creative level. The entire poetic work of Aco Šopov is deeply intertwined with his childhood, his hometown and his homeland. However, it is a known fact that one has to go far to hear the truth, to go outside to see it inside, to run away from oneself to find it again. Such is the lyrical, intimate biography of this masterful poet, who wrote Song of the Black Woman as a poetic testament to his stay in Africa. There he will take his providence to find his own daughter. And there on that ancient continent, discovering the world, he discovers his homeland. It is the crossroads of two othernesses – one’s own and another’s. One – black Africa with all its symbols and landscapes, and the other – the homeland, deeply experienced and just discovered. This paper aims to show the heterological aspects of Aco Šopov’s poetry in which the emphasis is placed on the Other/Other category, which establishes a system of binary opposition with the Self/Sameness category and their fusion as a concept of Between. Behind the One and the Other, one’s own and another’s, looms the Third that connects and enables connection.
КУЛТУРНАТА ДИПЛОМАТИЈА И АЦО ШОПОВ / CULTURAL DIPLOMACY AND ACO ŠOPOV
Cultural diplomacy is considered as one of the newer diplomatic disciplines that has its particularly important application in international relations, in the past and the present century. The instruments and means of culture are the basis of this diplomatic skill and discipline, and its main goal is to create opportunities for recognition, rapprochement, mutual respect and attraction between states and people who fail in those intentions through the other means of traditional diplomatic practice. In the world’s best diplomatic traditions, it was a good practice to send prominent people from one culture and science on a diplomatic mission, and such practice was adopted by our former community, SFRY, even in its earliest years of creation. A particularly responsible diplomatic mission in Africa, during the Yugoslav diplomacy, was given to the famous Macedonian poet Aco Šopov. Šopov’s cultural and diplomatic activities were not only related to his diplomatic stay in Senegal. He had been actively working on the promotion of Macedonian culture for many years before, both within the then community of Yugoslav peoples and on a wider international level. Throughout his personal and working life, Aco Šopov had culture as his most important determinant and his work was woven into the roots not only of contemporary Macedonian culture but also into the foundations of modern cultural diplomacy.
ATSO ŞOPOV’UN SANATINI TÜRK OKURLARINA TANITMAK / REPRESENTING ACO ŠOPOV`S ART TO THE TURKISH READERS
Aco Šopov is one of the most eminent personalities in the overall cultural and social world of Macedonia. In addition to his creative activity, he is also a translator, the founder of the Struga Evenings of Poetry, an activist of the Society of Writers of Macedonia and, among other things, our ambassador. Although he was successful in all his activities, Aco Šopov is synonymous with beautiful poetry, in which the poet conveys his magnificent and creative energy. His poems have lasting value, they are read with pleasure even half a century ago and today. Šopov’s poetry arouses great interest for both readers and scientific researchers. His character and work are the subject of many scientific researches, and his poems have been translated into several foreign languages. The aim of this paper is to expand that list of foreign languages. We decided to write this paper in Turkish in order to present his character and work to the Turkish readers. We hope to arouse interest among Turkish readers who love poetry, but also among scientific research and do similar scientific research that will expose and illuminate the great work of this prominent poet.
АЦО ШОПОВ ВО СЛОВЕНЕЧКАТА КУЛТУРНА СРЕДИНА / ACO ŠOPOV IN THE SLOVENIAN CULTURAL SURROUNDING
This article presents translations of Aco Šopov’s poetry by the Slovenian poets Bogomil Fatur, Ivan Minatti, Ciril Zlobec, Severin Šali and Jože Šmit, published in the 20th century, and includes information on the most recent translations that have been produced this year (2023), to mark the poet’s centenary. The article also introduces Aco Šopov as a literary translator, focusing on his translation of Oton Župančič’s Ciciban, one of the most important works of Slovenian children’s poetry. The Slovenian reception of Šopov’s poetry and his achievements in literary translation (literary-critical responses, analyses of some translations and other contributions) testify to the positioning of A. Šopov in the Slovenian cultural sphere.
ПЕСНА НА ЦРНАТА ЖЕНА ОД АЦО ШОПОВ ВО КОНТЕКСТ НА ДЕКОЛОНИЈАЛИЗМОТ И ПОСТКОЛОНИЈАЛИЗМОТ / THE BLACK WOMAN SONG BY ACO ŠOPOV IN THE CONTEXT OF DECOLONIALISM AND POSTCOLONIALISM
This paper offers a reading of the poetry book The Song of the Black Woman regarding Africa’s colonial past. It is known that the maintaining of imperialism and colonialism was possible partly because of the negative narratives about the colonized nations. Those negative narratives have shaped the perception of black people for centuries and it is not surprising that the negative stereotypes have affected the self-perception of black people as well. Because of that a critical stance is needed whenever one encounters a text in which there is a representation of black people and their culture. The paper brings together the thoughts of a few different postcolonial critics and thinkers. Šopov’s poems are situated in a broader cultural context. Regarding the central position of the figure of the black woman in the poems, the focus is on the representation of the female subject. The paper emphasizes the fact that Šopov does not accept the typical Eurocentric model which used devaluing the Other(s) and their culture as an alibi for colonizing. In the poems we read a complete affirmation of the Senegalese and African culture. Thereby we can conclude that The Song of the Black Woman belongs to the political move for decolonization even if that was not a conscious and leading intention of the poet.
ЛОКАЛЕН АКТИВИЗАМ, УНИВЕРЗАЛНИ ИДЕИ / LOCAL ACTIVISM, UNIVERSAL AIMS
This paper brings insufficiently known testimonies about the revolutionary, social- cultural and humanitarian activities of Aco Šopov, from high school to the first partisan environments. The poet is profiled among classmates and comrades, participants in the earliest preparation for resistance and struggle for human rights and national freedom, amid the hostile fascist, Bulgarian and Albanian occupation of Macedonia. The youth ideological and literary engagement of Šopov is mapped in the context of illegal and conspiratorial actions, together with Vita Pop Jordanova, within the framework of organizational, informative and later partisan activity in Štip, in the partisan detachments of the mountains of Plachkovica and Skopska Crna Gora. The socio-cultural and revolutionary engagement of Aco Šopov is more concretely illustrated through the activities of his closest friend, classmate, comrade-in-arms and inspiration for Kara Dak’s battle song, Vita Pop Yordanova, and through memories of her mother Sofia Pop Yordanova KoŠevaliska from Štip. Segments about the operational power and personal and collective realization of Šopov through his anti-fascist activity in the Second World War are listed in the events related to the Macedonian political activists - youth, workers, mothers and fighters who acted in Štip, Skopje and Kacanik. The revolutionary phenomenon until the Second World War is contrasted with today’s digital revolution.
АЦО ШОПОВ У МАЂАРСКОЈ И СРПСКОЈ КЊИЖЕВНОСТИ / ACO ŠOPOV IN HUNGARIAN AND SERBIAN LITERATURE
Transmitting the ideological and aesthetic content, sense and meaning in the translation process is an extremely complex task and challenge for the translator. The challenges are more expressed when it comes to literary translation, that is, the translation of a poetic text. The paper deals with the analysis of literary translation with a special focus on the translation of the poetry of selected songs by the Macedonian lyricist, Aco Šopov, into Serbian and Hungarian language. His lyric is unique and widely translated into other world languages, because of the emotionality it abounds in, as well as due to elements of combativeness, patriotism and autobiography. The aim of the research was to determine how the author’s original text was translated into Hungarian in the collection “Örök várakozó” (1964). The fact that one of the languages into which the collection was translated is Hungarian, which does not belong to the Slavic language family, is particularly interesting. This is the first book of this Macedonian author translated into Hungarian. At the same time, the paper analyzes a selection of songs translated into Serbian from the collection “Predvečerje” (1966). The originals were used for the analysis, as well as the translations by Ferenc Feher and Kalman Dudas into Hungarian and Sreten Perovic, Slavica Stulic, Branko Karakas and Vlada Urosevic into Serbian language.
АФРИКАНСКИТЕ МОТИВИ ВО ПОЕЗИЈАТА НА АЦО ШОПОВ / AFRICAN MOTIFS IN ACO ŠOPOV`S POETRY
The text problematizes the use of the terms “exotic” and “esoteric” in the context of Šopov’s poetry. Bearing in mind the time of their use, a time before the emergence of postcolonial studies and identity studies, the text points to the intuitive refrains from the romantic use of the terms in already existing studies devoted to African motifs. It contains the places in Šopov’s poetry where African motifs are perceived as close and familiar instead of distant and alien. In doing so, the universality of man’s search for his own identity, seen in the “universal origin”, is emphasized.
PATHS INTO THE WORLD: ACO ŠOPOV’S “BIRTH OF THE WORD” IN MULTIPLE TRANSLATIONS
Aco Šopov’s 1963 poem “Раѓање на зборот” (“Birth of the Word”) has been recognized as a central text in his work and translated into multiple languages. This paper examines eight different translations into six languages (English, French, German, Montenegrin, Russian and Spanish), focusing on a few telling nodes of sound and meaning that reveal the translators’ attitude toward the task.
ПУЛСОТ НА ОЗИРИС ВО ПРЕПЕВОТ НА ПЕСНАТА ГРОЗОМОР ОД АЦО ШОПОВ НА ФРАНЦУСКИ И НА АНГЛИСКИ ЈАЗИК / OSIRIS` PULSE IN THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE POEM HORRORDEATH
This paper analyses the adaptation of the poem Horrordeath by Aco Sopov in French and English. Ezra Pound’s philosophical-poetic theories and the matrix of translatability as a model for the evaluation of translations represent the theoretical framework in which the research is set. According to Pound, the translator, like Isis in the myth of Osiris, collects the scattered parts of the god of the dead, of the work being translated, and then puts them together, looking for the new life, for the new word. The translator should “electrify” the language, through the sound, the rhythm, the form, through innovation, he should give the pulse of Osiris, to the translation. The tool through which the pulse of Osiris, the energy, is measured, is the matrix of translatability. The matrix of translatability is based on the teaching of the Russian formalists about the illogical and agrammatic elements that account for the artistic effect of the literary work. The analysis is performed on the phonological, lexical, syntactic, and semantic level. The paper also considers the paratext as a significant element in the adaptation of literary texts from one culture to another. The subject of analysis are the materials available in electronic form in the Lyrical House of Aco Šopov.
ПРЕПЕВИТЕ НА ПОЕЗИЈАТА НА АЦО ШОПОВ НА ТУРСКИ ЈАЗИК / TURKISH ADAPTATIONS OF ACO ŠOPOV’S POETRY
Aco Šopov is the founder of contemporary Macedonian poetry. His poetry is lyrical, filled with personal experiences, thoughts and feelings, but also with universal values. Aco Šopov poetry is represented in anthologies of contemporary Macedonian poetry published in Macedonia and Turkey, but adaptations of his poems can be found in various literary magazines in Macedonia and Turkey too. In this article, a review of the published adaptations of Aco Šopov’s poetry in Turkish in various literary magazines and anthologies will be made and an appendix with new unpublished adaptations will be shown.
ПРВИТЕ ТВОРБИ НА УЧЕНИКОТ АЦО ШОПОВ / THE PRIME WORKS OF THE STUDENT ACO ŠOPOV
The paper presents and comments the prime works of the student Aco Šopov written during his school time and communist activities of youths under the Serbian and Bulgarian rule. The poems written in his high school Notebook for written compositions during the third grade of the real high school, as well as other poems notated on separate sheets are previewed in this article. More precisely, thirty-two poems written in Serbian language in total, out of which, seventeen are written in the Notebook. The titles of the poems written in native Macedonian language from the missing poetry collection “Anovi” or “Poems about Stip” written in 1941, as well as poems dedicated to the death of his best teachers Vanco Prke and Slavco Stojmenski are exposed. The poems have lyrical, social, love, romantic and patriotic theme inspired by the social-economic conditions in the second half of the last century and the poor and difficult situation of the family Šopovi. The article discusses the three main phenomena as a possible way out of salvation from the difficult childhood years, from childhood and non-childhood years and from the “hundred-headed” monster: – writing songs during high school, – the activity in the literary society “Progress” in high school, – involvement and active action in the Communist youth organization until he joined the Partisans at the end of September 1943.
МЕТАФОРАТА И МЕТОНИМИЈАТА ВО ПОЕЗИЈАТА НА АЦО ШОПОВ / METAPHOR AND METHONYMY IN ACO ŠOPOV`S POETRY
In this paper, the subject of interest is the stylistic means of expression in the poetry of Aco Šopov. Special emphasis is placed on the main, most common stylistic figures characteristic and ubiquitous in the author’s poetry, metaphor and metonymy, which as semantic stylistic figures - tropes are especially present in the poet’s lyrics. Through the metaphorical connotations, metonymic associations and rich lyrical coloring, the poet gave a deep emotional charge to his intimate confession, but also a striving for universality with cosmopolitan isohypsis in existence and non-existence.
ИНТИМНАТА ЛИРИКА НА АЦО ШОПОВ / INTIMATE LYRICISM OF ACO ŠOPOV
“I have traveled a long time, traveled a whole eternity, from you to my unbeingness“. (Šopov, 1976: 121) If we draw a parallel from this quote with the topic of this work, we will come to the conclusion that the intimate lyrics in Aco Šopov’s poems are actually a path to a deep and intense emotional expression of one of the greatest lyricists in Macedonian poetry who expressively and metaphorically capturing his unbeingness, leaves a strong imprint on poetry in general. This way, the most hidden, the most lyrical vibrations in the poet’s soul are transmitted to us, initiating a desire to experience that intimacy of feeling and thought, to discover something beyond, something that will give us spiritual food, something that, when we understand, will help us make a reflection on ourselves and our spiritual ascension. The depth of Aco Šopov’s strongest intimate lyrical trembles is actually a thread that leads to the entire emotional blaze of the poet who, in his journey towards unbeingness, will discover his aim: “I wanted to fight and I fought. I wanted to write and I wrote.” (Aco Šopov). In this work, emphasis will be placed on some of the intimate lyrics from Shopov’s poetry, more precisely on some of the poems from different collections of verses from different periods of his creation that captivate and shine with the poet’s expression.
ВОНВРЕМЕНСКАТА ДИМЕНЗИЈА НА ПОЕТСКАТА РЕЧ НА АЦО ШОПОВ / THE ETERNAL DIMENSION OF ACO ŠOPOV`S POETRY
The poetic word in its immanent predisposition establishes a relationship with the sacred matrices. The moments of connection between the sacred and the profane encode the poetic motifs and patterns, which continuously, singing cantatively, allusively, emotionally, figuratively, cognitively condition new models, new images, new symbols. The poetic word within the framework of its discourse, its song, its verse, sings layered meanings that reproduce emotion, energy, thought and sense, from the beginning, from a hundred centuries ago, since yesterday, until today, etc., etc. to infinity, to nothingness, from all its sides, angles, lengths, heights, widths and depths. Šopov’s unreservedly profound, massively thought-provoking, crucially lucid poetic record offers a timeless relevance with every re-reading. Even after many decades, the poetic lines of Aco Šopov enchant the mind by arranging rhythmic sayings about being and becoming, about possibility and impossibility, about power and impotence, about human existence and non-existence, unfolded in the bonds of the golden circle of time. The poet paints the deep sentimentality using figurative aspects and functions, while artistically and poetically skillfully stimulating emotional aspects, while deeply concealing and revealing, the secret but well-known cognitive dimension of poetic telling. Quite authentically less archaic, it sings ancient archetypal symbolism, which corresponds to the Jungian paradigm, while compositionally it spills out with the lyrical functional focus of emotional-aesthetic, figurative-pictorial and cognitive-thoughtful poetics, according to the theoretical framework of Katica Kulavkova. The timeless dimension gives a reflective feature to the lyric, which poetically, artistically and deeply closely interweaves, not the transhistorical, but outside the time and transhuman archetypes, essentially and substantially uniting lyric and semiotics, being and non-being.
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.
ЧОВЕКОТ КАКО МЕТАФОРА ВО ПОЕЗИЈАТА НА АЦО ШОПОВ / THE METAPHOR OF MAN IN THE POETRY OF ACO ŠOPOV
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.
АЦО ШОПОВ НА СТРАНИЦИТЕ НА СПИСАНИЕТО НОВ ДЕН / ACO ŠOPOV ON THE PAGES OF NEW DAY MAGAZINE
The text refers to Aco Šopov’s literary beginnings, which are largely related to the appearance and publication of the magazine “New Day” (1945–1950). Šopov first appeared as an editor and then as an author in the magazine and this is the milestone of the Contemporary literary life of the Macedonian language after World War II. Exploring Šopov’s activities on the pages of “New Day” means studying the history of Macedonian literature.