o:30183 Sedmi krug Vaska Pope sr en Abstract: The paper focuses on the previously understudied topic of the connection between Vasko Popa’s poetry and alchemy. It provides an overview of the previous treatment of the topic and attempts to establish a connection between the alchemical motifs of Vasko Popa’s poetry and those in texts by A. Breton, M. Eliade, C. G. Jung, Fulkanelli, and his student Eugen Kanzelli. Within a given context, it analyzes symbols in the collections of poems No-Rest Field and Home in the Middle of Road; the poem A Heart of Pebble Stone from the collection No-Rest Field; the cycle of poems Fiery Wolf; the fourth and the sixth poems of the cycle Wolf’s Bastard from the collection Wolf’s Salt; and the poem Discussion on Dew from the collection The Cut. Keywords: Alchemy, philosopher’s stone, Uroboros, masterpiece, Mother Earth, antimony, flower of all flowers. 1552101 0350-6894 91552100 315843335 2023-06-15T12:46:43.626Z 44 no 46 Aleksandra R. Popin Državni univerzitet u Novom Pazaru 14044007 0000-0001-9818-2129 application/pdf 601544 https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:30183 no yes 16 70 92000001 20A01 Slavistična revija: Časopis za jezikoslovje in literarne vede 61 3 485 494 2013