Utopia (bez) człowieka. Modernistyczne potyczki z antropocenem (liryka Młodej Polski)
The Humanless Utopia: The Modernist Anthropocene Escapes (Young Poland’s Poetry)

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on Young Poland’s portrait of the human being and attempts to throw the human out of nature and the world. It reveals and analyses how poets hesitate between admiration of human power (Leopold Staff, Adam) and being weary of human omnipresence. The article shows how poets (Kazimierz Tetmajer, Ta trawa…, Muszla) seek a pristine primeval time and space without human beings before the Anthropocene. The paper reveals poetic situations in which the subjects differ from humans. The conclusion emphasizes a connection between the utopia without a man with the moment of subject formation as well as symbolistic ways of expression.

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