THE HIP’S “VIRTUAL SELF” AND THE TRADITION OF THE ENGLISH ROMANTICISM
Keywords:
English Romantic Literature, T. S. Eliot, The Hip, poets as GodsAbstract
The purpose of this paper is to comparatively investigate the use of literary devices such as rhythm and imagery in the poetry of English Romanticism, T. S. Eliot and in the lyrics of North Macedonian band
The Hip. In particular, the specific focus is allocated to the use of Eliot’s critical inventions of auditory imagination and objective correlative that summarize the conceptual link between all these disparate literary and musical traditions. Additionally, the reflection on the key English Romantic lyrical contributions by Wordsworth and Coleridge reveals the key aspect of The Hip’s lyrics that of a quest that will symbolically place the poet to the level of Gods, of the ones that having upgraded their creative power to the levels above the ordinary humans are able to command and legislate the world. The way humans praised Gods wary of their power, now they should similarly be in awe of the poets whose souls are fed with the fruits of eternity. This essential insight reveals the fact that the creative genius of the artists from different periods of time and different traditions does not perish in time but has been systematically revived over and over again in a format of a spiritual quest. Its revival will continue as some future artists will once again surely step on the same path
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