The diploma thesis tries to answer the question of what can be established by the comparison of the first three poetry collections of the authors Svetlana Makarovič and Gregor Strniša. It assumes that similarities between their poetry exist, and tries to discover differences within those similarities. Initially, it outlines the essential characteristics of the first three collections of both authors and indicates the characteristics of their further work. In their early work, it finds similarities, such as drawing from folk tradition on a formal and motivic-thematic level, similar non-folk motives, and a deviation from anthropocentrism, as well as derives a fundamental difference in the thematic orientation of the poetry of both authors. In the center of Strniša’s poetry is a philosophical question of the structure of the world, while Makarovič focuses on etihical social issues. The thesis further discusses the play Unicorn, which is a result of their cooperation, and shows the similarities between the play and the poetic opus of both authors. The parallels between Unicorn and Strniša’s other works are the idea of the duality of appearance and truth, placed in the context of his philosophy of cosmic consciousness, and partly the idea of insanity as a path to the insight of transcendence. The latter two similarities also appear in the works of Makarovič. The duality of appearance and truth manifests as a critique of human falsehood, while the idea of insanity plays a role within the critique of the social response to it.
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