UTICAJ SVETOG FRANjE ASIŠKOG NA JELU SPIRIDONOVIĆ SAVIĆ: „SIROMAŠTVO, LjUBAV, SMRT” U POEMI PERGAMENTI

Abstract

The influence of Saint Francis of Assisi on Jela Spiridonović-Savić is obvious in her verses dedicated to the famous mystic, but those verses are not the main example of how much Saint Francis of Assisi was important for moulding Jela Spiridonović-Savić as a poet. A crucial moment is when she strays from him as a model which can be noticed in her thought and in expression while she is creating particular and sublime poetry. The crucial moment happens in the poem Parchments when Jela Spiridonović-Savić is writing the verses about the Death; those are the verses full of desire to enrich the light and final liberation. Before that, the poet meditates about Poverty and Love: combined with Death, they represent a trinity of this life that leads to God and Saint Francis of Asissi was their main follower and pleader. The verses dedicated to Poverty, Love and Death in the poem Parchments represent a specific dialogue with the famous monk in form of a perfect poetic creation.