Religinės savimonės atspindžiai XIX amžiaus lietuvių poezijoje / Aurelija Mykolaitytė

Abstract

Šiame straipsnyje nagrinėjama religinės minties raida poetų kunigų Antano Strazdo (1760–1933), Kiprijono Zabičio-Nezabitauskio (1779–1937), Antano Baranausko (1835–1902), Antano Vienažindžio (1841–1892), Aleksandro Burbos (1854–1898), Jono Mačiulio-Maironio (1862–1932) kūryboje. Ką menininkai laikė svarbiausia? Kaip kiekvienas jų suprato žmogų Aukščiausiojo akivaizdoje? Nagrinėti vien kunigų kūrybą pasirinkta neatsitiktinai – jų literatūrinis palikimas yra kuo puikiausias to meto religinės savimonės liudytojas

This article analysed the evolution of religious thought in the poetry of Antanas Strazdas, Kiprijonas Nezabitauskas-Zabitis, Antanas Baranauskas, Antanas Vienažindys, Aleksandras Burba, Maironis. What is most important in their works?How they understood the human being in God’s presence? All these writers were priests of Catholic Church, and their literary heritage is the best witness of the religious self-awareness in nineteenth century. In the beginning of the nineteenth century in many texts are reflected the religious self-awareness of community in God’s presence. The poetry of Strazdas speaks about human being who is the representative of community. In many works he tried to express the religious feelings of all common Lithuanian people. The first Lithuanian exile writer Zabitis-Nezabitauskis found another way to witness his religious thought. The main material of his works is the fate of homeland and the experience of exile. Many poems of Zabitis-Nezabitauskis could be entitled „Prayers for homeland“. Baranauskas was also very anxious about Lithuanian destiny, but he didn’t speak about the fight against the aggressors. The salvation was found in the Roman Catholicism. His texts very often invite to preserve the firm faith in God and the traditions of ancestors. In the end of nineteenth-century many works express the religious self-awareness of nation in God’s presence. Burba accentuated the importance of Lithuanianism, Maironis prayed for benediction of his nation. This time was very important also to development of individual religious poetry. The manifestation of individualism could be found in the poetry of Baranauskas, Vienažindys and Maironis. Many times Maironis’ meditative poems express only the private attitude toward transcendence. From this analysis, our discussion can adumbrate some conclusions about what identifies a poem as religious. [...]