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'''Ivan Goran Kovačić''' ({{IPA-|sh|ǐʋan ɡǒran kǒʋatʃitɕ|pron}}; 21 March 1913 – 12 July 1943) was a Croatian poet and writer.
 
==Early life and background==
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==Works==
[[File:Ivan Goran Kovačić 1 proleterska 1943.jpg|thumbnail|Ivan Goran Kovačić in partisans.]]
Death is a central theme in much of Kovačić's poetry,<ref name="The pit">The pit Ivan Goran Kovacic [https://allpoetry.com/The-Pit The pit Ivan Goran Kovacic]</ref> however this is not a reflection on his life outlook. His melancholy subjects came from outside events—such as his own and his brother's affliction with tuberculosis—rather than from an internal disposition toward the morose. Jure Kaštelan, one of Kovačić's contemporaries, expressed that Kovačić was inclined both toward romanticism and realism in his poetry, and that Kovačić had an intense perception of life.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pavletić|first=Vlatko|title=Goran: Njim Samim|year=1963|location=Beograd|pages=183, 213|chapter=U svijesti Drugih}}</ref>
 
His best known work is ''"Jama"'' (''"The Pit"'').<ref>A. Kroupa, Sto moderních básníků, pg. 158, Prague 1967</ref><ref>Dušan Karpatský, in: Sto moderních básníků, pg. 158, Prague 1967</ref> He penned it during the war, while in service near the town of [[Livno]]. The poem was written out of intellectual and ethical responsibility that condemns atrocities and massacres done by the Croatian [[Ustaše]]. It has been described as a metaphor about the sufferer, martyr, and victim: “The sufferer is when a person without fault suffers. The martyr is when nonhumans torture a person. The victim is when the whips of injustice extinguish life. That is Goran’s metaphor. And his life.”<ref>{{cite book|last=Milačić|first=Božo|title=Riječ i Svjetlost|year=1961|publisher=Izdavački zavod Jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti|location=Zagreb|pages=8}}</ref> His work is an example of [[anti-war]] poetry with messages against torture, mass murders and war crimes. "Jama" was studied in elementary schools throughout the [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]].{{citation needed|date=April 2018}}
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