'TO LET ME FINALLY SAY...' A PORTRAIT OF A POEM WITH CZESLAW MILOSZ IN THE BACKGROUND ('Zebym wreszcie powiedziec mogl...' Portret jednego wiersza z Czeslawem Miloszem w tle)

• Authors: Michalowski Piotr
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article is an attempt at interpretation Czeslaw Milosz's poem IT (TO) from the collection under the same title published in the year 2000. The poem is a multifaceted riddle and its ambiguity can be seen at many levels of the text's structure and in its theme. The poem's modality also proves vague since the subject of its metapoetic reflection can be both the poet's prior accomplishment and his creative intentions, thus the presence of genre relationship with the elegy, manifesto, and poetic testament. The poem is rhetorically complicated and abundant in the course of argumantation, hence it seems not to be a confession but a sophisticated play of the poet who accepts changing roles and putting on various masks. The pronoun used in the poem's title indicates the object of comment (thought, feeling, fear), the name of which is either intentionally passed over in silence or does not exist; yet, an effort to characterise 'it,' made as an array of comparisons, is either a supplementary periphrasis or a catachresis of the Inexpressible.

Keywords

EN

CZESLAW MILOSZ; MILOSZ'S 'IT'

• Publisher: Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
• Journal: Pamiętnik Literacki
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 102
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 113-128
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Michalowski Piotr

• Piotr Michalowski, University of Szczecin, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA096221