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„Rozhuśtana na grozie wesołość” – barok w poetyckim świecie Wisławy Szymborskiej

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Bielak A.
Świat i Słowo
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2023
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vol. 40
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issue 1
210-222
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„Merriment dangling from terror32” – baroque in the poetic world of Wisława Szymborska The article extends previous findings regarding the multiple connections between Szymborska’s poetry and the baroque tradition. It exposes the existential dimension of these references concerning anthropology and the place of man in the world. The world of Szymborka’s poetry, unlike the baroque one, is a disenchanted world. The author of the article draws attention to the inner dark trend in Szymborska’s work, related to the sense of terror of existence. This conviction about the tragic essence of the condition of human nature is skillfully masked with linguistic means, giving the impression of cheerful fun. The poet asks questions about the responsibility for one’s own life, for other beings. Existential anxiety of this poetry is mitigated by the convention of linguistic play. However, this does not ease the sense of being lost in the abyss of being.
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Obrazy hvězd a jisker v Máji: antropologické a ontologické výpovědi

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Pokorný M. Z.
Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
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2021
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vol. 69
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issue 6
709-738
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The article explores the role played by the motif of stars and sparks in the first to third songs of Macha’s poem May. Stars appear in the first canto, both in reference to stars whose light is going out and in the form of sparks (the reflection of starlight) playing on the waves of the lake. In the second canto, the extinct (dead) star that is falling forever through dark space connotes human life exposed to nothingness. If the sparks on the lake are characterised as ‘lost light’, then, it is said, man is unable to determine which spark is a reflection of which star, and is thereby also unable to reveal the source of the light and of earthly beauty. Humans are thus unable to discern whether earthly beauty and earthly life really have any supernatural (transcendent) source.
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