Zum Topos des „Gärtners” bei Leopold Staff (Ogrodnicy)
On the Topos of the Gardener in Leopold Staff (Ogrodnicy)

Summary/Abstract: Te article discusses in detail a poem by Leopold Staff entitled Ogrodnicy [Gardeners]. Te main object of the hermeneutic and structural analysis of this poem is the “topos of the gardener.” It appears in writings of authors strongly influenced by the classical tradition, and Staff was a Neoclassicist. Te poem Ogrodnicy can be read as a text from this tradition. Its analysis is meant to characterize the topos of the gardener and point at the role of a modern poet and modern Polish literature.

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