“A connoisseur of love songs / and ripe cherries” – on the Sung Poems of Ewa Lipska Cover Image

„Znawca miłosnych pieśni / i dojrzałych czereśni” – o zaśpiewanych wierszach Ewy Lipskiej
“A connoisseur of love songs / and ripe cherries” – on the Sung Poems of Ewa Lipska

Author(s): Paweł Marciniak
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Ewa Lipska’s poetry; song; sung poetry; popular culture; reception of the relation between poem and song

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on a niche (in the context of reception) aspect of Ewa Lipska’s work, namely the formation of the genre of the song on the basis of the literary output of the author associated mainly with high art, which includes poetry. The introduction (quotation and analysis of relevant theoretical texts) introduces the reader into the world of filiation between a poem and a song. The main part of the paper contains interpretations of selected works by Ewa Lipska which were used as song lyrics by such artists as Grzegorz Turnau or Anna Szałapak. In this article the author attempts to destabilise the notion of “sung poetry”, weakening also the stereotypes (connected with arbitrary assigning it only to intellectual poetry) growing around Ewa Lipska’s works. In the article, the author attempts to destabilise the notion of “sung poetry”, weakening also some stereotypes (connected with the arbitrary attribution only to intellectual poetry) around Ewa Lipska’s work.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 169-183
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish