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Lyrical Dialogue in the Collection of Poetry Přísný obraz (Austere Picture) by Josef Kostohryz

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2009

Abstract

The text is concerned with the inner dialogue of the lyrical speaker with his own self. Throughout the book, this dialogue takes on a number of different forms, reflecting the speaker’s disposition and life experience.

He addresses himself either more directly when the “you actually substitutes “I, or by means of various entities characteristic of his life experience – individual people, love, poetry, fate, literary and mythical characters of the ancient world etc.