| Abstract [eng] |
The final master’s thesis aims to investigate how the distinctiveness of the poetry of the young writer Vainius Bakas spreads through essential motifs. A hermeneutic-phenomenological approach is used for this. All five (except for children’s poetry books) collections of Bakas’s poetry – “Pretekstai” (2009), “Kas vėjo - vėjui” (2014), ‘‘Kaštonų tonai” (2016), ‘‘Tylos fonetika” (2021), ‘‘Pasiklydusios kulkos” (2023) were selected for analysis. Vainius Bakas is a prolific writer who has won many awards, but his work has not been studied or discussed much. This master’s thesis examines the relationship between the subject and nature, themes of love, time, and war prevailing in the author's poetry; the worldview of the subject of the poems, the metaphorical expression of the states of his soul are studied. With the help of hermeneutic-phenomenological analysis, this work examines the truth of being in the work of Vainius Bakas, manifested through various phenomena. The poetic form expresses the survival of present and eternal questions, the paradoxes of being and everyday life. Listening to silence, dialogue with nature is important for the subject of the poems. In Bakas’s poetry, there is a clear dialogue between nature and the lyrical subject – nature is depicted as a reflection of various states of the subject. The inspiring forces of nature, which give the subject the desire to dream, are also important. The work examines the semantics of wind and water, as the most frequent motifs in the author's poetry. Their ambiguity is explained with examples, proving that Bakas’s work is extremely dynamic, the metaphorical expression is not fixed, it varies. Temporality in Bakas’s work is closely related to the cycles of nature. Human life, the variation of the subject's mood is juxtaposed with the transformations of nature, seasonal change. It turns out that childhood memories are very important to Bakas. The poet’s poems recreate childhood experiences, the world of parents, ancestors, and home. Poems remember not only direct, but also indirect experiences – childhood can be remembered not only as experienced, but also as told by relatives, seen in photographs. The author’s poetry is also characterized by irony, especially when glossing over sensitive, painful topics, such as the loss of loved ones, sentimental memories of the dead. For Bakas, tradition is the foundation of all creativity. In his poetry, the author uses many intertexts of Lithuanian and global creativity. The expression of thoughts is close to classical poetry, but in this way the author establishes a dialogue with the past, reflects and delves into eternal themes. Listening to silence is also important for the author, silence is filled with poetic meanings. Key words: hermeneutic phenomenology, Vainius Bakas, poetry, being, literature tradition. |
