Vol.2, No 7, 2000 pp. 191 - 200
UDC 820.09-1
TAKERS AND MAKERS:
HEANEY'S VIEW ON TWO POETIC MODES
Nataša Tučev
Faculty of Philosophy, Niš, Yugoslavia
Abstract. Two of Seamus Heaney's poems - 'Glanmore Sonnets (II)'
and 'Elegy', and a number of his essays, are analysed in order to abstract
and formulate the poet's theory about the two principal poetic modes. The
difference between the takers and the makers, i.e., the 'feminine' and
the 'masculine' poets, is in their attitude to the sources of creativity
and to experience in general. It is demonstrated how the former yield to
the flow of energy inherent in nature and the unconscious, which they regard
as mysteries never to be completely divined. The latter, on the other hand,
tend to bring the initial creative impulse under greater conscious control,
illuminating and rationalizing the 'raw material' of their poetry. The
paper also discusses formal and stylistic features of the two modes, as
well as Heaney's own creed in this context.
PROROCI I ZANATLIJE:
HINIJEVO VIĐENJE DVA POETSKA MODUSA
Hinijeva teorija o dva ključna poetska modusa u ovom radu se razmatra kroz
analizu njegove poezije i eseja. Pesnici čije je obeležje "ženski", "proročki"
modus, stvaraju kroz proces predaje i prepuštanja energetskim tokovima
otkrivenim u prirodi i nesvesnom; za njih su to ujedno i tajne koje se
nikada ne mogu do kraja odgonetnuti. Predstavnici "muškog", "zanatskog"
modusa, s druge strane, teže da početni kreativni impuls potčine većoj
svesnoj kontroli; njihovo obeležje je penetracija, prodiranje svetlošću
racija u ono što je nejasno i nerasvetljeno. Različit stav koji ove tradicije
imaju prema izvorištima inspiracije i stvarnosti uopšte odražava se i na
njihove formalne i stilske osobenosti. Ove Hinijeve postavke su, naravno,
u neposrednoj vezi i sa njegovim ličnim stvaralačkim iskustvima.
