About a Literary Work of J. Mihalkovič from the End of 60th to the Beginning of 70th

Text deals with an interpretation of the poetry of J. Mihalkovič from the end of 60th and the beginning of 70th. The interpretation itself is preceded by an discursion about a situation in interpretation of after war and present, wide comprehended poetry. After more than four decades from the establishing and making a profile of a gesture of interpretation in the Slovak literary scholarship and critics, the discursion outlines briefly some of the current issues of such a work: recoming of biography and a context of life to work with a text in connections with completing of biographies and works of many key authors; necessity of culturally semiotic and ideologically critical reading in connection with social changes from the end of 80th ; necessity of making the work with a text more deeply due to a tradition of the Modernism and avant-garde as poetologically and historically supportive background. The poetic cycle Spôsob ticha (A way of Silence) written by J. Mihalkovič, which was formally published in his selection of poems called Albá (Albums, 1972) and then the same cycle was included in the collection of poems Kam sa náhlite (Where are you rushing, 1974), from literary historiographical aspect, it represents an example of unclear and non-reconstructed process of crossover of poetry of protagonists of 60th to a new, different decade. Interpretation of two chosen poems Smerom (In the Direction) and Prah (Treshold) is focused on following the plan of the author – bare “languageness” of the texts as well as tendency, which is based on including a poetic picture inside a designation, inside its possibilities to create new words and para-etymological possibilities (in the end there are like a parallel mentioned texts of L. Novomeský, M. Válka, Š. Moravčík). a certain view at contemporary poetic searching of Mihalkovič expresses his translation of a key poem written by a Soviet poet O. Mandeľštam Kto našiel podkovu (Who found a horse-shoe) Theoretical optics to an interpretation during a reading is supplied by an imagination about in advance uncertain interplay, alternation of different levels in the artistic text (a whole text, a sentence, a verse, a word, a morpheme, etc. in a sense of “a structure of an artistic text “ , J. Lotman). The end is dedicated to an open question how to put an potential aesthetic invariant of an author ´s texts between “life-theme” situation and poetological description. In a case of j. Mihalkovič the principle will probably call “mirroring” (in different type of meaning of a word).