Mirties atšvaitai Algimanto Mackaus simboliuose

Abstract

In Algimantas Mackus’ poetry the five elements of the world (earth, water, space, fire, metal) create an ideal of death. These elements are bound and supplement one another: flame, a constitute of fire, may be extinguished with water, but death triumphs all the same; components of water are supplemented by heat that dries up rivers; metal may be heated by fire, but it is not stable - it rusts; symbols of space are replenished by the stars and the freshness of water, but time turns everything into ashes. The elements of the world are connected with the Baltic elements, which have the same symbolic meaning, united by the theme of death and forming a kind of anticosmogony. However, the Baltic elements are not so universal, as their meaning depends on territory.