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Oblicza miłości w poezji Wisławy Szymborskiej
The Faces of Love in Wisława Szymborska’s Poetry

Author(s): Agnieszka Bielak
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: Wisława Szymborska; love poetry

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an approach to the issue of love in selected poems by Wisława Szymborska in the diachronic perspective, with paying attention to the main problems connected with the issue. It advances the thesis that the issue of love was replaced by the elegiac current in the poet’s recent collections of poems. It also points to the specific features of the language of this poetry.

  • Issue Year: 59/2011
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 233-250
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish