Nieudana rewolucja. Wiktora Woroszylskiego socrealistyczna batalia o formę
An Unsuccessful Revolution. Wiktor Woroszylski’s Socialist-Realist Battle for Form

Summary/Abstract: In the paper the form of Woroszylski’s socialist realist (and youthful) poems is considered. The poems are subjected to versological analysis in terms of verse construction, rhythm, and rhyme, in reference to classical and newer research on the theory of the poem, in close connection with the meaning of these poems. Moreover, the writer’s paper „The Battle for Mayakovsky” is mentioned, postulating the imitation of Mayakovsky and the abandonment of classical poetics. The „battle” for the new way of writing becomes a political struggle and a struggle for a form that combines prosody and poem structure with the current reality. This unsuccessful struggle, criticised by the legislators of real socialism for expressionism and formalism, is treated in the article as a departure from the socialist realist canon, an expression of youthful experimentalism, and the basis for the author’s future, mature work. It is due to the fact that he saw the authenticity of „anti-aesthetic” poetics.

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