Poezja paradoksów ontologicznych Stanisława Czerniaka
Stanisław Czerniak’s Poetry of Ontological Paradoxes

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article points at an original mode in which Stanisław Czerniak in his poetry approaches an array of classical philosophical tropes. He starts his paper with a reflection about how, in general, the relation between philosophy and poetry should be captured, as their discourses on the one hand show mutual affinity and overlap in many points, yet on the other hand, they are differentiated in their treatment of linguistic material. While philosophers accentuate its abstract, conceptual side, poets emphasise the representative aspect of the concrete, “think” mainly in the picture built in the words of a poem, and not in terms of notion. Next, as based on selected Czerniak poems’ interpretations and their fragments, the paper demonstrates the particular way in which he poetically deals with the key philosophical notions of time, nothingness, hierarchy of entities, culture–nature relationship, God’s existence, phenomenon of death etc. A characteristic trait of Czerniak’s treatment of those issues is displaying ontological paradoxes which reside in them. Much attention in the paper is also paid to such Czerniak’s pieces in which the poet is critical about the various myths and illusory images that mark the thought of today’s Internet and smartphone society. In such interpretations, special attention is given to the linguistic side of Czerniak’s poems in which the poet performs sophisticated plays on words.

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