The Ray of the Microcosm

“The Ray of the Microcosm” (Serbian Cyrillic: Луча микрокозма, romanized: Luča mikrokozma) is a romantic, cosmic-religious poem, written in 1845 by Prince-Bishop and poet Petar II Petrović-Njegoš. It is written in the decasyllabic meter of Montenegrin epic poetry. Njegoš’s religious poetic thought achieved its highest artistic shape in this work.

Illustration "Angel leads the Poet" by Borivoje Grbić for "The Ray of the Microcosm"

The poem contains three main thematic parts. The first is the Dedication which introduces some of the most important philosophical and religious premises of the poem. The second part consists of two cantos which describe the cosmic flight of poet’s soul and its search for answers about origins and destiny of humankind on Earth. The third part comprises the remaining four cantos which describe Satan’s mutiny against God and fall of Adam and his legion from Heaven.[1]

References

Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, The Ray of the Microcosm, translated by Anica Savić Rebac, Svet Knjige, Belgrade 2013.

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