O życiu roślin w „Patykach i badylach” Urszuli Zajączkowskiej
About the life of plants in „Patyki i badyle” by Urszula Zajączkowska

Summary/Abstract: In the era of climate humanistic education, one can notice many changes in the approach to nature, to thinking about nature and man. Urszula Zajączkowska – a contemporary Polish poet, biologist, and scientist – in her works, presents an innovative approach to the relationship between nature and man, as well as developing a new description of language. The analyzed volume of essays, Patyki i badyle [Sticks and stalks], is a literary description of observations of the life and death of plants, shoots and trees. Zajączkowska represents a reflective method of studying nature; she talks about the life of green plants with tenderness and emotion, calling them “creatures” with “bodies”. Anthropomorphization in the treatment of plants is characteristic of the poet’s entire work, thus constituting a kind of linguistic experiment. For Zajączkowska, plants are unique; they are characterized by simplicity and loneliness, and man is inscribed in their nature and should learn the humility of life from them.

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