The diploma thesis addresses the lyrical cycle »Poems of Young Women's Love« by Anica Žemlja (Mira Mokriška), whose 150th birth anniversary we celebrate this year. The main themes of the 32 poems are nature and happy love, which, through their interweaving, indicate the poetess's great affection for nature, through which she discovers her inner reality. Frequent elements of nature, which acquire existentially significant traits through metaphorization, include celestial bodies, parts of the day, seasons, streams, forests and flowers. With these, she expresses her happiness, longing for the beloved, her fragility and strong emotions, doubt, and loyalty. The latter, along with fulfilled love, forms a distinctive characteristic in contrast to Josip Murn and Vida Jeraj, for whom the longing for the ideal of love has not been realized. The synthesis of interpretations and comparison with contemporaries have shown that all three use similar (neo)romantic and impressionistic motifs and formal processes, which classify the self-styled abandoned Mokriška among her peers in writing. In comparison with Simon Jenko, it has been found that the poetess has adopted the traditional comparison of nature with the mental world, but not in the alienation of the late Jenko, but in her own unique way. Nature represents a sacred exterior for her, which encourages her to reflect on the sacredness of her own interior, and both remain whole, beautiful, serene, and sunny in the cycle »Poems of Young Women's Love«.
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