Co jest na drugim brzegu? O przestrzennych zależnościach w wierszu Zbigniewa Herberta Pożegnanie
What’s on the Other Shore? About Spacial Dependencies in the Poem Pożegnanie by Zbigniew Herber

Summary/Abstract: The article refers to the poem Farewell by Zbigniew Herbert and fundamental question is about the metaphor of the shore and the spatial relations associated with it. Topoi of the poem shows that the shore is connected here with the end of life, death, eschatological intuitions. The space designated by the riverside is the space of settling in, the lyrical subject says “I live now on the slope of the hill”. It allows us to refer to the concept of Martin Heidegger from his essay Building, Dwelling, Thinking. The shore in the poem is not a harbinger of a sad end but an announcement of what is on the other side, and in the text it is expressed by the metaphor “the other steep shore”.

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