JAN SMREK (GALLOPING DAYS)

The aim of the study is to show the residua of poetic world in the book 'Cvalajuce dni' (Galloping days), which altogether with the aesthetic realisation itself accent or presume ethical origin as a primary source of Smrek's poetic gesture. Jan Smrek's second collection of poems 'Cvalajuce dni' (Galloping days) was published in 1925: opposite to his debut it brought radical change in terms of aesthetics, poetics as well as typology. The basic semantic gesture of the book confirms that Smrek departed from metaphysical aspiration and a plan of eternity, and he joined the way of physical life- experience, releasing of sensually instinctive vitality and a plan of temporality. Tension between linearly and cyclical model of world is manifested in different structurally semantic levels, while the author found his expression primarily in opposition 'sinfulness' (culture, city, prostitution) and 'innocence' (nature, village, virginity/maternity). An inevitable condition of Smrek's model of world is an ethic, and moral attitude, which are parts of natural/inartificial order. They are guarantees for keeping continuity of existence in both individual and generic levels (in the context of Bergson's life philosophy). Integrity of being and synthesis of life is then articulated not in antagonistic but complementary relationship of the concepts of activity and passivity, spontaneous passion and faithful love, adventure and steadfastness, finality and infinity. In the very centre of Smrek's poetic world there is an idea of free development of human individuum. The study is to contribute in enlarging the aesthetic contexts of Smrek's model of world in anthropological and ontological dimensions in connection with Bergson's philosophy of 'creative development'.