„[K]orzeni szukam pradziadów / co oplatają trzewia ziemi” – obraz „małej ojczyzny” w lirykach Władysława Grabana
"I’m looking for the roots of my forebears / that entwine around the innards of the earth" – a picture of the local home country in the lyric poetry by Władysław Graban

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the linguistic and stylistic form of the Władysław Graban’s Polishlanguage poetry and indicates the means that build up the picture of the poet’s local home country, i.e. the space limited to the nearest region [he was emotionally involved with]. The sentimental home country for the poet had always been Lemkivshchyna or Lemkovyna (Polish: Łemkowszczyzna; Rusyn: Лемковина / Lemkovyna), the country of his youth. It was the region that was the inspiration for his poetic themes. The picture of the local home country created by Graban was depicted from a methodical perspective by Jerzy Bartmiński, according to three dimensions of associative references: (1) spatial dimension (land, place, territory); (2) community dimension (community of people, national community); (3) cultural dimension (literature, rites, folklore, language).

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