Global Journal of Human Social Science, G: Linguistics and Education, Volume 22 Issue 9

Summer, etc. These inventive names again indicate the infinite potential of poetic expression and the magic of language. Homo poeticus, after all “Only poetry is powerful enough to touch the essence of the world.” Martin Heidegger Poetry is an old anthropological need and one of the most senior human skills. The truth poetry “radiates,” – it is an epiphany of the divine, a transition from Non-Being into Being, “an urge that does not ask for sense”, as Blaže Koneski would say. According to Danilo Kiš (from his essay this subtitle is taken), poetry is a defense against barbarism: it gives the sense to our existence. “Poetry continues the beauty of the world; it aestheticizes the world” – French professor Gaston Bachelard wrote in his study Poetics of Reverie . Without poetry, the world would be a “wasteland” – the Serbian writer Mihajlo Pantić says. For Urošević, poetry represent “entrance in the realm of freedom, and release from the realm of necessity.” Aware that poetry today is excluded from social events and the great movements of the epoch, he considers that “poetry is forced to lead an almost secret life.” In one of his essays with a paradigmatic title – “What is Poetry Able for,” he declares that poetry “cannot stop any war, cannot reduce the misfortunes of refugees, cannot prevent the destitution of the planet.” According to him, the poet feels incapable “before the tragic and increasingly threatening perspectives of the contemporary world.” Urošević, however, emphasizes his faith in the “hidden force” of poetry and in the prophesying role of the poet. “Who knows, his verses may have some kind of influence on tomorrow’s developments? ” 26 To be a poet of the level of Vlada Urošević (“poet-magician,” “explorer, discoverer and builder,” according to Mateja Matevski), is to be dedicated to poetry whose nature is enlightening. However, “it explores the night” of the soul of the world and “the secrets in which the human being has sunk,” as Saint- John Perse would say. “The poet decodes the essence of things, to express it, he must again, in a different way, encode it,” Urošević considers. Maybe that is why his ideal in poetry, as he often emphasizes, is to make “a poem that will look like a solid object. As an object carved out of language,” “as some kind of beautiful perfect box.” “Maybe because the box always hides something inside. ” – he is optimistic. 27 26 В . Урошевиќ , Viola arsenica, op.cit., p. 82. 27 В . Јанковски , Огледало на загатката (conversations with Vlada Urošević), op.cit., p. 26. In it are stored the past and the memories of childhood, dreams, and yearnings of the poet Vlada Urošević. The book is “a magical object,” as he says, an “unread book” and, as the box, it hides – a riddle, “a secret unraveled only by another secret” – as it is said in the poem “Ablanatanalba.” The earthly and the celestial images of this poetry (from “the anxiety in the landscape” to the “star orchards”), fascinate with the unique and wondrous crystallization of the expression. With the “cosmic force” of imagination, Urošević creates the virtual space of the eternal poetry of humankind. I believe that the poetry of Vlada Urošević can enchant an English, American, French or German reader almost as much as a Macedonian one. Translation from Macedonian into English: Kalina Maleska © 2022 Global Journals Volume XXII Issue IX Version I 31 ( ) Global Journal of Human Social Science - Year 2022 G Poetry as Playfulness and as Riddle (On the Poetry of Vlada Urošević)