{"id":23316,"date":"2019-01-31T10:17:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T09:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hit-booker.com\/?p=23316"},"modified":"2019-01-31T10:37:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T09:37:17","slug":"aleksa-santic-the-great-poet-from-mostar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hit-booker.com\/travel-guide\/aleksa-santic-the-great-poet-from-mostar","title":{"rendered":"Aleksa Santic – The great poet from Mostar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Aleksa Santic, the great poet from Mostar\u00a0<\/strong>is one of the most famous lyric poets. Aleksa Santic was born in 1868 in Mostar, in the heart of Herzegovina, where he spent most of his life. Father Risto died early, so taking care of him took up the uncle. Aleksa had two brothers, Peru and Jakova, and Sister Radojka, married to the poet and Aleks’s friend Svetozar \u010corovi\u0107.<\/p>\n

Aleksa Santic lived in Mostar, in a family where they had no understanding of his talent, and after the completion of the school at Trieste and Ljubljana , he returned to his native Mostar. His poetry was made between the 19th and 20th centuries. The poets Vojislav Ili\u0107 and Jovan Jovanovi\u0107 Zmaj were the most influential in his poetry rendering.<\/p>\n

Furthermore foreign authors, such as Heinrich Heine, whose work was translated by Aleksa Santic himself. In the period between 1905 and 1910, Aleksa created his most beautiful songs full of strong emotions, love and sadness, and sorrow.<\/p>\n

The house<\/strong> in which Aleksa was born into a family of merchants still stands on Brankovac.\u00a0<\/strong>Aleksa also has a lifesize monument in the park that carries his name at Luke in Mostar\"aleksa-santic-monument-mostar\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Lost love inspires the Aleksa Santic’s amazing poetry works<\/h3>\n

In Mostar, Aleksa Santic wrote first verse, worked there, loved and lived. He fought with the whirlwinds of social change at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. He fought it mostly with longing.\u00a0 It is the impossible love and longing that inspired Aleksa to wrote some of the most beautiful\u00a0poems. His two greatest loves have been women and homeland. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Aleksa Santic did not have good fortune with love. First women he loved he had to leave because of disapproval of his family. It has been said Aleksa hated himself for making such a cowardly move. The second love of his life was Anka but she married another man as Aleksa Santic did not fit her life plans.<\/p>\n

The most famous song written by Aleksa Santic is probably “EMINA”. One that you can still hear on the streets of the Old Town<\/a>. His song” Emina” is a legendary\u00a0and sort of a hymn to the poet as well as to the soul of the town.\u00a0 Although Aleksa Santic lived in the Old Town, he never actually spoke to Emina who at that time was 11 years of age. Emina got married when she was 16 and bore 14 children. She never forgot the famous poet but claimed also never to speak one word to him.<\/p>\n

Aleksa Santic poured all his heart and soul in this unforgettable song.\u00a0It would be hard to find a person who would not know the words. It is said that life isn’t worth living if you did not have at least one Emina in your life \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Here is a video where the song is performed for the Red Bull Cliff Diving Opening.<\/p>\n