COUNTLESS KISSES – RAMPART AGAINST ETERNAL NIGHT: POEM FIVE BY CATULLUS AND <em>AFTER OLD CATULLUS </em>BY SIMA PANDUROVIC

  • Гордан Маричић
Keywords: Catullus, Sima Pandurovic, kisses, counting, love, death, society, envy, getaway, fulfilled life

Abstract

In his Poem Five, which is one of the four poems directly or indirectly devoted to counting the kisses, Gaius Valerius Catullus contrasts a passionate and intense life of eternal night with the reality of death. Such a life, filled with countless kisses and a continuous giving and receiving, is a medicine against wicked old men and evil envy.

A Serbian poet Sima Pandurovic, who uses Catullus’ four verses as the motto for his poem After Old Catullus, is a rational and consistent pessimist. For him as well, the only option to survive life is to love and retreat into solitude. There should be a getaway from people and society, but a getaway for two.

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