Edlira DHIMA- University of Vlora “Ismail Qemali” Faculty of Human Sciences
Edlira Dhima<edadhima@gmail.com
Abstract: As one of the most classic and well-known representatives of Kosovar poetry, unlike the young poets who start their literary creativity with great enthusiasm and dedication, but in the future this flame gradually fades and falls to the artistic level of poetry , Din Mehmeti climbs uphill calmly, but confidently and without interrupting his poetic journey. A full 60 years of journey, in its path of development, his poetry has undergone ideological, thematic and stylistic changes, sometimes big and sometimes small. The connection of the poet with the historical fate of Kosovo and the Albanian people in general is inextricable. His tireless efforts to create a modern poem, with a rich metaphorical expression, but also close to the reader which sometimes reaches the highest degree of poetic abstraction, are amazing. Even though he is not a poet of the stands, Din Mehmeti still joins the ranks of creators who do not want to free poetry from its social mission, nor alienate it from man, from his fate and life. His poems deal with the joy, the pain, the hope, the suffering, the falls and the rise of man and especially of the people who live in the Dukagjin Plain. As a deep poem, full of emotion, unlike the creativity of other poets who make their self as an axis around which the world revolves, Din Mehmeti identifies the poet’s self with the fate of other people, and especially with the fate of people of the Kosovar territory.
Keywords: poet, metaphor, man, work, poetry, fate, territory.
Introduction
As one of the most classic and well-known representatives of Kosovar poetry, unlike the young poets who start their literary creativity with great enthusiasm and dedication, but in the future this flame gradually fades and falls to the artistic level of poetry, Din Mehmeti climbs uphill calmly, but confidently and without interrupting his poetic journey.
The first collection In the wings of fireworks, published in 1961, brings the young poet, with an expression full of transparency and a narrow vision of life and poetry, with more or less broad thematic interests.
The publication of the second collection titled Solar Youth, in 1966, shows him as a poet with a broader vision of life and experiencing deeper poetic emotions, while with Shivers of light published in 1969, he comes to the eyes of the reader as a meditative and quite emotional poet.
Volume 11, No.1 (2026): February
ISSN 2661-2666 (Online) International Scientific Journal Monte (ISJM)
ISSN 2661-264X (Print)
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