The text is an interpretation of Stanisław Barańczak’s poem From the introduction to a phrasebook. The reading of the lyric reveals a basic organizing opposition, i.e. the dichotomy of “liquidity” (“shallowness”) and “depth”. The final parts of the interpretation present the role of poetic language (defined through modernistic concepts) as a language that gives the opportunity to counter the aporia inherent in every act of communication.
The article provides an interpretation of Tadeusz Kubiak’s Świat z góry na dół w Pieczewskiej Ławrze w Kijowie [The World Upside Down in Pechersk Lavra in Kyiv]. The poem presents a description of Lavra’s interior, which makes a closed and harmonious entity, “the world”. This entity is gradational rather, than homogeneous. The direction of gradation is indicated in the title and finds its embodiment on the level of style and motif. The space depicted can be divided onto two separate parts: the sacred and the profane, the boundaries of which are defined by “the wall.”
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