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Discussion

The study will focus on the poetic staging of communicative situations in the poems of the authors of Slovak Modern School from the beginning of the 20th century - primarily on the comparation of the poems by two authors: List starého mládenca po bále by Janko Jesenský (1874 – 1945) and the poem by Ivan Gall (1885 – 1955) Valčík. These are poems set in a ball environment, where the communicative situation between the subject and the female subject is thematized. It is thus possible to apply the analytical tools of "lyricology", as a new independent sub-discipline for analyzing lyric poetry, whose main starting point is the impulse of narratology, originally defined for the field of prose. The speech situations in the lyric poem are varied and directly related to the categorization of the different types of subjects present in the text (the autobiographical author, the narrator/lyric subject named or appearing in the work, the addressed addressee, the fictional reader, and so on). With the emphasis on the aspect of the communicative situation of the poem, the question of speaker comes to the fore. One of the elements that help to construct the model of the lyric subject may be the lyric address in lyric communication. The ball poems of the authors of Slovak modernism, which are based on a definite communicative scheme between subjects, provide suitable material for such an insight into the reading of poetry.