In form and intention, the article is reminiscent of the explanation of "Sumatra" of Miloš Crnjanski, and the poetry is explained mostly in the mystical key of the song entitled "Maybe Sleeping" by Vladislav Petković Dis.
[4] Continuing Vladislav Petković Dis's visionary, dreamy line of Serbian poetry, Ratković sees secret connections and elusive meanings in everything.
This meeting of mentality and education brought Ratković's poetry unusual visions, contacts with the afterlife, communication with unknown beings or with dead, close people.
These poetic images are concretized in sudden metaphors and unusual syntactic twists, which affects the partial or complete absence of a strictly understood logic.
These features are especially characteristic of songs from the earlier period of creation, in the collection "Dead Gloves" and the short poem "Leviathan".
[6] It poetically deals with the experience of Saharan Desert, Oriental Misery and Mediterranean Sun, as well as contact with the history and present of the Middle East.