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Godisnjak broj 4 са УДК бројевима (1)

2024, Godisnjak

Abstract

The ritual and lyrical folk songs represented in Vuk's Dictionary are diverse and represent a valuable document of the patriarchal life of the time in which they originated and lasted. Although they are incomparably more subjective in comparison with a great number of forms of folk creation, lyrical folk songs, especially the ritual and common types of work involved, accompany a multitude of forms of social and family existence of the Serbian people: customs and rituals in the patriarchal community, the place of an individual in the family, superstitious prejudices, but also many manifestations of public life. Vuk's classification of lyric poems, two centuries old, in addition to examples of the contents of individual species, is accompanied by his personal observations and descriptions, which explain the quoted verses of folk lyrics. It is precisely these observations that are valuable to the testimonies of the folklore of the Serbian people and the explanation of the current understanding of reality, valuable for all subsequent interpretations of folk lyrical poems. It goes without saying that what each nation calls folk literature, in its most diverse forms and forms, represents acceptable literary works applicable in the process of learning and raising children.