Abstract
Flowers are frequent and priveleged literaray motifs in Matoš’s work, elevated to a symbolic level. This paper interpretatively analyzes literary representations of two flowers of great symbolic potential: pansy and lily-of-the-valley from the sonnets Maćuhica (Pansy) and Srodnost (Kinship), the hallmarks of Matoš’s poems, and anthology and canonical texts of Croatian poetry. It is determined through analysis that flowers are a poetical expressions of Matoš’s longing for the ideal of beauty on a concrete, symbolical, poetological and programmatic level. It is established in the conclusion that Matoš’s poetical flowers are highly artistically treated and cultivated, that is, aestheticized, representing aestheticism as the first period of the age of modernism.
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