Ciało i poetyka samoograniczenia. Kontakt z meduzą w wierszach Marianne Moore i Marii Pawlikowskiej-Jasnorzewskiej
Body and the Poetics of Self-Restraint. Contact with Jellyfish in the Poems of Marianne Moore and Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to analyze two poems by Marianne Moore and Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, which textually process the encounters between humans and jellyfish. The author argues that both poets having described a variety of meeting places (water, beach) between human and non-human animals, experiment with a poetics of strangeness that evokes a sense of incompatibility between human and jellyfish. However, both poets propose poetic formulas such as the abandonment of intention and attentiveness that transform the lyrical personae of their poems into gestures of conscious relinquishment of the desire to touch and possess. Although the poems analyzed are anthropocentric, they embody an attitude that challenges the dynamics of human domination, possession and assertion of human position. According to the author, Moore and Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska realize it by creatively confronting the antithetical materiality of the jellyfish with the unstable and corporeal identity of the lyrical persona.

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