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Miłosz: Self-Reflection as the Topic of a Poetic Description

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Stelmaszczyk B., University of Lodz F. o. P., barbara@uni.lodz.pl

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

2016

vol. 38

issue 8

Czesław Miłosz’s poetry displays two reverberating topics which may be defined as contradictory existence and world experiences. One of those is the admiration for the beauty of the world and awe consequent upon capturing the simultaneous existence of individual entities (Amazement), whilst the other is the topic of the lack of fulfilment, torment, the feeling of lack of authenticity, blame, and shame (This).Miłosz depicted his “I” (represented by various personae), the split between individual consciousness, a strong sense of individuality, distinct from the commune of ordinary people (a strand salient in the pre-war volume Three Winters), at the same time nurturing a feeling of strong bonds with the society.The poet’s self-reflection holds for both topics, while the autobiographic discourse is orientated to the questions about the functions of the poetic language and about the status and sense of poetry, thereby addressing the self-topicality.

Poeta Grochowiak – „dusza czująca” uwięziona w oście

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Stelmaszczyk B.

Przegląd Humanistyczny

2014

issue 2(443)

19-34

The author of the essay makes an attempt to discover such aspects in Stanisław Grochowiak’s poetry which prove that he is rooted in the Romantic tradition, and at the same time experienced tragic, traumatic feeling of being hemmed in by contemporary reality. This feeling is caused by aesthetic and moral degradation of the world surrounding him, which prevents the continuation of high style poetic tradition and forces the change of the language used. Thus, Grochowiak introduces dissonances, plays with opposites, uses grotesque to present lyrical situations. His connections with Romantic tradition focus mainly on taking over Romantic symbols/masks of the author’s persona and his individual perspective on the world, in which he ambivalently balances sensitive expression with defiant, accusatory description of the world. He uses irony, grotesque and blunt realism uncovering bad or mutilated images of the world. The author of the article made also an attempt to interpret Grochowiak’s hermetic, obscure, “dark” poems and explain the reasons why the poet deliberately employed “dark” poetics strategy.

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1 Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

1 Przegląd Humanistyczny

2 Stelmaszczyk B.

1 University of Lodz F. o. P.

1 barbara@uni.lodz.pl

1 2016

1 2014

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Miłosz: Self-Reflection as the Topic of a Poetic Description

Poeta Grochowiak – „dusza czująca” uwięziona w oście