Abstract
Slovene poetry in the sixties of 20th Century became a kind of inter-textual dialogue. The heterogeneity of poetics was a general characterisation for poetry after the avant-garde period, where the co-existence of various poetics appeared.
Modernism in the sixties brought striking symbols and metaphors, verse forms, perspectives and linguistic innovations, as well as the metamorphosis of the lyrical subject. One possibility for the changing forms of the lyrical subject is the process by which they have taken over the masque, the persona: we can analyse an assumed role of a character that represents the thoughts of a writer in the literary work by Dane Zajc and Svetlana Makarovič.
They began with a specific person the writer presents as his mouthpiece. The lyrical subject expressing his feelings and ideas in the first or second singular or other grammatic forms was, in these neo-avant-garde texts, replaced by a plurality of voices or one generalised voice, who guides the discourse.
In Tomaž Šalamun's anthology Poker i n 1966, a k ind of f luid subject worked a round t he decentralised individual,allowing the rupture of space and time.The poet became a kind of impersonal creator of texts. Modernity came to reveal the inconsistency of identity as something monolithic and eternal.
Poetry exposed the problem of flexible, fractured identities, the pluralities of voices and the different masques of the lyrical subject as well. All of that depicted the changing features of the identities of the author in poetry.
The multiplicity of the lyrical subject constructed the identity of the author.