Abstract
The topics of our article will be intimacy in the Slovene poetry at the turn of the Century. In 1906 Ljudmila Pojanec (1874-1948), the first Slovene "lesbian poet", published her only anthology Poezije (Poems) at the publisher house Schwentner in Ljubljana (Slovenia). In that period she was next to Vida Jeraj the only Slovenian woman poet who succeeded to published her poems in a book form. She was very revolutionary in her themes and motives and in the scenarios of intimacy in her lyrical poetry, but never the less she was not accepted in the Slovene society nor in her life time nor later, the reception of her poetry was very poor.
One of the first Slovene women lyricists at the beginning of the 20th Century, poetess Poljanec constructed her writers' and gender identity in the newspaper Slovenka (1997-1902) at the fin-de-siècle period in Trieste in the circle of young female intellectuals, writers and feminists. With her nomadic personality she also belonged to the Habsburgian context and was connected to Viennese culture. In the article we will analyze representation of her homoerotic desire and thematization of love in the autobiographic cycles Ob Adriji (At the Adriatic Coast) and Baronesi Sonji (To the Baroness Sonja). We will focus on the idealised picture of a woman. We will research the strategies of the lyrical subject, the picture of the Other and the question of the spiritual and carnal dimensions of the representations of love in her poems. We will also analyze in her autobiographic lyrics her moral perception of the homoerotic love and her inner struggles, pictured in the poetry, which were due to her deep faith in God and her catholic education - homoerotic love in her poetry is also depicted as great suffering and guilt.