“Stay here, the sun of the foreign sky will not warm you as this one
does”…These are some lines written by Aleksa Šantić that express home longing.
Šantić was one of the most famous representatives of newer poetry in Bosnia and
Herzegovina.
He spent most of his life in his hometown Mostar, and was acquainted
with other poets, such as Osman Đikić, Svetozar Ćorović and Jovan Dučić.
Šantić`s poetry is full of powerful emotions and grief caused by love.
His creations of melodious rhythm and tone were of great value, and his poems
were very inspiring. The Bosnian love songs – “sevdalinka”- gave inspiration to
Šantić`s love poetry, and we can notice numerous images of Bosnian gardens,
flowers and fountains (“šadrvan”) in his poetry.
The female characters from Šantić`s poetry are always decorated and
attractive, but with hidden beauty. One of the well-known poems is “Emina”,
which is now sung as a song (sevdalinka) too. Longing is the main theme in
these songs.
The poetry of A. Šantić contains some autobiographical elements too. As
a young man, Šantić fell in love with a girl, Slavonka Anka Tomlinović, but had
to leave her because of his orthodox family.
Later on, he experienced another heartache when his new beloved woman
Zorka Šolina left him because he was not appropriate for her when it came to
social classes.
His other main theme was home longing. In some of his poems, he
describes the pain of characters that leave their countries and move into the
white world (“Stay here”, “Bread”), while in other poems he uses pain as an
important historical moment (“We know our destiny”).
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