In an effort to defamiliarize the poetic text, poets in various literatures use a procedure that is a substantial transformation of the conventional lyrical subject “I” to the so-called “hypostatized ...subject”. This new form of the poetic subject is a predominant feature of broader epicizing tendencies that cross borders of national literatures and enrich authorial poetics. However, a poetic text with the hypostatized subject cannot be perceived only as a shift from the conventional lyrical subject that is an end in itself. Most authors use it not only as a mythological but also a social and historical reflection of a human personal subject that was failed by history. It is an attempt at a marked and distinctive artistic rendering of human destiny that is embedded to a lesser (Zbigniew Herbert) or greater (Ted Hughes) degree in a particular historical context. literature, Slovak literature, method, reflection, symbol
In the article the author outlines the genesis of contemporary Slovak poetry since 1956. He presents the characteristic features of the poetics of the two most important poetic groups – the ...Concretists and the Lonely Runners. In the texts of Ján Stach and Ivan Štrpka he manifests differences in poetic procedures and in relation to the complexity of the world and the depicted reality. The author illustrates the consequences of depoetization in the poetics of experimental poets, which lead to hopelessness and the emptying of "creative" procedures. The method leading to a denotative experiment lacking poetic tropes and using a language that has lost, through sterilization, the ability to generate meaning and to stimulate the reading experience, has unacceptable consequences: any text broken down into verses can then become a poem. At the end of the essay, the author lists the names of poets who he considers (pars pro toto) artistically productive and whose works enrich the context of contemporary Slovak poetry.