HYMNIC CODE IN CZESLAW MILOSZ'S POETRY (Kod hymniczny w poezji Czeslawa Milosza)

• Authors: Pawelec Dariusz
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Hymnic genre awareness in Czeslaw Milosz's poetry is included into metadiscursive statements. Poetic self-commentary often leads to encapsulating the entire work in the hymnic genre. The hymn becomes an identification of the author's poetics and develops into a literary type. The author of the sketch questions for the proper understanding of the hymn in reference to all found in Milosz's poetry direct indications of genre correlations as well as for the modes in which other ways the hymnic tradition are summoned. Is there a nonthematized hymn in this poetry and, if so, in what way can it exist? From his debut until Last poems (Wiersze ostatnie) Milosz is observed to carry out a long-lastin process of codification of the qualities of hymnic expression which is being accomplished in a constant dialogue with the forms already attested. Refering to the analysis of metatextual statements found in Milosz's poetic texts, the article concludes that the use of the term in question goes beyond its narrow literary genetics meaning. The Polish poet seems to be drawing on the ancient synonymy of the term of 'hymnos' and poetic creativity at large. The objective of the analysis is the mode such awareness is reflected in hymnographic production. The presence of hymnic code is seen as one of the elements which unites Milosz's literary output. Milosz's notion of hymn crosses the limits of his poetics. Hymnicity, then, stems from experiencing the sacred but is primarily viewed as an existential project. Milosz's 'living in hymn' reminds of Hölderlin's hymnicity.

Keywords

EN

CZESLAW MILOSZ; HYMNIC CODE IN MILOSZ'S POETRY; MILOSZ'S 'LAST POEMS'

• Publisher: Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
• Journal: Pamiętnik Literacki
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 102
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 35-54
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Pawelec Dariusz

• Dariusz Pawelec, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

Identifiers

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11PLAAAA096216