KODIRANJE LJUBAVI U DJEČJOJ POEZIJI

Abstract

Children’s poetry is oriented towards the child’s experience of the world, encompassing themes of play, nature, homeland, emotions, and others. It follows the emotional, interest, and cognitive development of the child, and themes and motifs in children’s poetry are incorporated differently depending on the age of the implicit readers, as observed in poetry with themes of love. Children’s love poetry includes various manifestations of love, from so-called partner love, through thematizing family emotions to love for friends, animals, homeland, etc. In the study, Luhmann’s communication concepts of love coding were applied to the selected corpus of Croatian children’s and adolescent love poetry that thematizes so-called partner love, and the models of love coding were observed as idealization, paradox, incommunicability, and romantic coding of love. The idealization model recognizes beauty and virtue as what attracts lovers, but it also extends to accepting imperfect aesthetic characteristics and flaws. The paradox as a communication model implies communication models that provoke contradiction by displaying emotions in unexpected and inappropriate ways or by diminishing the lover’s abilities and comparing love to illness. Lyrical subjects demonstrate the inability or avoidance of expressing emotions, which can lead to communication breakdown or its absence, and such a communication model is observed as a model of incommunicability. Codes of romantic love tend towards the privacy of lovers and encompass gestures and occasional verbalization. Different codes can intertwine and complement each other in individual poems.