The dream of Pencho Slaveykov and the metamorphosis of poet’s idea

Abstract

After the middle of the 19th century, secular culture and literature were constituted, which separated them from Christianity. The poet’s figure is developed in the cultural field. In Petko Slaveykov's lyrics, the poet serves his fellows, dedicating himself and his “singing” to the collective and the national idea. In the age of modernism, subjectivism and anthropocentrism dominate. In Pencho Slaveykov’s view, the poet must follow his personal, individual, unique, unrepeated soul path in wandering, in trouble, in solitude. He does not think of earthly glory but of life after death. Through the categories of modernism, Pencho Slaveykov reconsiders and resemantizes the poet’s figure and behavior. The poet is a leader. He serves the others while following his path of the chosen one, of the prophet of a moral ideal.