The Concept of Sleep in the Inna Lisnianskaya’s Cycle of Poems Nepravilnyi venok Cover Image

Koncept snu w cyklu wierszy Inny Lisnianskiej Неправильный венок
The Concept of Sleep in the Inna Lisnianskaya’s Cycle of Poems Nepravilnyi venok

Author(s): Ewa Nikadem-Malinowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: Lisnianskaya; poetry; cognitive analysis; concept

Summary/Abstract: Metaphorisation is the basis of poetic language. The main basis of poet’s creative processis intuitive thinking. This paper is devoted to the cognitive analysis of the Inna Lisnianskaya’scycle, due to its excessively developed concepts of sleep and dream. In the fourteen sonnets,linked together by composition and plot, the poet creates an image of a timeless reality ofdreams which is composed of mythical, biblical, historical and biographical elements.Since learning is mainly based on finding similarities, Lisnianskaya combines the conceptsof water, waves, sea, chaos, the ark, wine, love, life and death and builds a dreamlike worldin which lyrical characters are able to handle the matters interrupted by their separation.

  • Issue Year: 1/2012
  • Issue No: XIV
  • Page Range: 185-192
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish