Lyrický potenciál předmětného světa
The lyrical potential of the object world

Meanings of things, spaces and actions…

Summary/Abstract: This study, which is freely inspired by the results of thematological and cognitive linguistic research, observes the way the potential for relations between man and the external world of objects is realized in lyric poetry. Object motifs acquire a dimension of mood or value, which grows from practical experience with things and which then adheres to their designations in the form of secondary symbolic meanings. However, this does not just apply to individual objects, but to the entire in-depth time-space structure implied in language. For example, an opposition appears between horizontal and vertical, light and darkness and the like. Moreover, each of the members of these oppositions as a rule also indicates an internal value-ambivalence: e.g. “bright night” and “dark night” have different symbolism, “height” and “distance” are symbols of desire, but also of possible dangers and so forth. On this basis there arise stable but always poetically re-accentuated image parallels between the object world and human existence, as represented e.g. by the topos of the “journey” or the seasonal and diurnal cycle.

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