Abstract
“The Angel of Arilje”, a poem from Branko Miljković’s volume of poems Fire and Nothing (1960), is the poet’s another expression of transforming the metaphysical into poetical. All the significant questions in Miljković’s poetics, furthermore, in neosymbolist poetics are mirrored in it: the relation between poetry and reality, erasing of subject (oblivion), and the nature of poem. Within the image of an angel (a fresco and poetic imagery), Miljković has discovered the desired balance between the material and the spiritual. The relation between the realities of the former and the latter side of the wall is a precondition for understanding Miljković’s notion of emptiness, not only as a place of birth of poetry, but also as the discovery of the ontological meaning. Having in mind the lexicographic aspect of the poem “The Angel of Arilje”, here we observe Miljković’s neologism “onocvetno/other-florally” as the key poetism in which Miljković’s creative principle of connecting metaphysics and poetry is epitomized.
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