Avant-garde tendencies in the poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Milos Crnjanski

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of avant-garde tendencies in the poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Miloš Crnjanski in the following aspects: 1. general poetic features, 2. ideological attitudes, 3. the use of Biblical subtext, 4. parody and deconstruction of genres, 5. versification, 6. The relationship between love, passion and pain, 7. relations between mystical symbols and the transformation of the myth of Odysseus. In the context of the parallels between their general poetic features, we will analyse the influence of Russian futurism, as well as the original paths of Sumatraism of Miloš Crnjanski in order to create a new sensibility. By combining the external and internal approach, as a necessary complementary system for analysing the key aspects of the poetry of Mayakovsky and Crnjanski, we will observe the relations between individualism and ideology, the ambiguities in the use of the Biblical subtext, the principles of the destruction of tradition and genre innovations, the relationship of prosodic features and avant-garde perceptions of freedom of expression through dynamic poetic associations.