The World and Death: On “Wysokie słońce” by Łukasz Barys
The World and Death: On “Wysokie słońce” by Łukasz Barys

Summary/Abstract: Critics emphasise and Łukasz Barys himself points out that the tradition of naturocentric Romanticism is central to his work. This interpretation of poems from Barys’s debut collection “Wysokie słońce” [High Sun] allows us to trace how the poet renews the Romantic tradition in his work. He creates ecologically and socially engaged poetry, in which man shares his fate with nature. Death affects everyone; not only people deserve to be remembered. The Romantic paradigm of remembering the dead is reread by Barys as a call to pay equal respect to humans, animals and plants. He thus takes a fresh look at the Romantic pattern of memory and closeness to the dead.

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