DIS - POET OF DAYDREAMING TONES

BIJELJINA, May 15 /SRNA/ – Serbian poet Vladislav Petković Dis /1880–1917/, a poet of the daydreaming and dark side of the world, tragically perished on May 16, 1917. Unrecognized, criticized, and almost completely rejected in his own time, Dis is a poet to whom the future wholeheartedly opened the doors of fame.

With his lyrics of dark, negating, otherworldly, and daydreaming tones, filled with pain and defeat, he sang of the "dungeon of life."

Dis' poems considered anthological include: "Perhaps She Sleeps," "With Eyes Closed," "Drowned Souls," "Morning Idyll," "Blue Thoughts"...

By nature, Dis was a bohemian.

Together with Sima Pandurović, he edited "Literary Sunday," worked as a war correspondent with the Serbian Supreme Command during the First Balkan War, walked across Albania with the Serbian army, and stayed in France as a refugee.

On his return, the ship he was on was torpedoed by a German submarine, and the poet found his final resting place in the Ionian Sea, near Corfu.