COMPARISON OF CERTAINTIES OF LIFE AND DEATH IN TWO POEMS:“EURYDICE’SELEGIES” BY PIERRE EMMANUEL AND “ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD ”BY BRANKO MILJKOVIĆ

Abstract

In the following paper, the author will compare two poets of ne osymbolism, Pierre Emmanuel and Branko Miljković, regarding their differing modes of adaptation to the sphere of subjective meanings. While avoiding the deadly indisputability here in the realm of objects, Emmanuel senses that the infinity of re-definitions can bring him no solace either, for the freedom of the new system of signs is so extensive that it erases all solid boundaries between the subject and his object (or, as herein, Orpheus and his Eurydice). In fact, Emmanuel’s poem makes us unable to truly differentiate between the seeker and the object, because as the poem indicates, Eurydice (i.e. the object) searches for Orpheus (i.e. the subject) with equal futility. Miljković, on the other hand, manages to reconcile the desperately monistic present and the future of cherished subjectivity by believing that any aim of a person’s subjective, emotional self is reachable because of the very fact it is inherent to us, rather than transcendental, as in Emmanuel’s poem.