O Vrba

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O Vrba is a sonnet written in 1832 by the Slovene national poet France Prešeren. It is the introductory exposition of a cycle of six sonnets named Sonnets of Unhappines. The sonnet is dedicated to Prešeren's home village Vrba, expressing a sense of general melancholy over the lost idyll of the rural environment. According to contemporary Slovene literary critics, especially Marija Prijevec, Boris Paternu and Janko Kos, the meaning of the sonnet is centered on the problem of insecurity and unhappiness of a free subject detached from the teocentric world view. The sonnet form follows the rules abstracted by A. W. Schlegel from the sonnets of Petrarca.

O Vrba became extremely popular during the late 19th century. Several musical interpretations of the poem have been created, the most known of which is probably a folk rock version by a prominent Slovene musician Vlado Kreslin.

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