The poetics of Macedonian folk poetry and the worldview that it reflects.

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of two phenomena
depicted in Macedonian folk poetry: the specifics of the poetics of the
Macedonian folk love lyrics and the specific worldview, the system of
aesthetic and ethical values characteristic of the time in which this
poetry was created. The subject of our research is the folk poetry
created in 19th century (maybe something before and after that)
characteristic of the Macedonian people. The basis of the Macedonian
traditional music is Byzantine singing. One of the most characteristic
features of this singing is the singing with ison, in the traditional music
for this type of singing is used the term bordun. The rhythm of the
Macedonian folk songs is seven eight. Macedonian (love) folk lyric is
simple in language expression, but at the same time, rich in structure
and poetics in Schopenhauer`s sense: it is quite possible to be at once
simple and sublime. The key concepts characteristic for the
Macedonian folk love lyrics, which reflect the characteristic worldview
at that time, are: МЕРАК (a specific type of love that includes longing);
ЛИЧНО (an epithet that expresses the concept of beauty motivated by
the beauty of the face, which in turn is a reflection of the inner beauty
of the soul, often used in neutrum gender) and МИЛУВА (a verb that
denote love in whose essence is the concept of grace). The epithets
used to describe beloved are epithets of Christian virtues (КРОТКО /
КРОТКОСТ). Grace, as one of the key concepts in the Macedonian
folk lyrics, is also reflected in the use of special grammatical forms:
abundance of diminutive forms in naming and addressing and the use
of grammatical neutrum gender in verb forms congruent with a subject
both masculine and feminine (empathic neutrum gender, gender of
grace).