A touch of the sacred. An attempt to organize religious themes in the post-war poetry of Czesław Miłosz Cover Image

Dotyk sacrum. Próba uporządkowania motywów religijnych w powojennej twórczości poetyckiej Czesława Miłosza
A touch of the sacred. An attempt to organize religious themes in the post-war poetry of Czesław Miłosz

Author(s): Izabella Zajączkowska
Subject(s): Poetry, Polish Literature, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: God; nature; religious; apokatastasis;

Summary/Abstract: Czesław Miłosz always defended himself from calling him a religious poet, but his works clearly show that the importance of religious problems in his poetic works played a bigger and bigger role in his creativity. Everything began from a praise to the world, good and beautiful nature. Later nature became was seen in sacred categories and the vision of the beyond and human clearly had a biblical character. In addition, the theory of apokatastasis and the deliberation about Manichaeism and Gnosticism, which shouldn’t be treated as creed declarations were added to that. An interesting vision of God present, but invisible to the world appeared in Miłosz’s poems. As time passed, the poems of the Noblist became more and more religious and got closer to Catholicism. In the same time, antinomies and contradiction, which always characterized the creativity of the poet are present.

  • Issue Year: XLVI/2010
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 223-239
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish