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Abstract

The poetry of A.Nyka-Niliūnas interests us because of its fidelity to tradition and its essential transformation of that tradition. The poet re-reads myths and symbols of Christianity and in this manner creates a sacrum of personal experience. In this article emphasis is placed on images of resurrection and of the home, identified as the space and the things of Nemeikščiai; the latter participate in the mystery of death and resurrection and thus form the semantic opposition to the traditional notions of the Resurrection in the Christian cultural paradigm. We have chosen the poem "Rytas Nemeikščiuose" as the starting-point for the discussion of Nyka- Niliūnas' poetics of the resurrection present in both his diaries and poems. The poet's personal and universal vision of the resurrection is organised around the polysemantic figure of Uršulė. Uršulė, treated in a manner that suggests irony, is associ-ated with Talita, Tanita, Medea as well as the Mother. Each of these associations is explained in the present article within the context of the topos of the resurrection. The poets' paradoxically ordinary view of the Last Judgement stands between farce and elegy. His images of the Last Supper related to Resurrection emphasise the place of the scene and the image of the table. Nyka-Niliūnas re-reads the traditional metaphysics and this has major significance in the interpretation of Nyka-Niliūnas' poems of resurrection.