O jedwabnej stronie wiersza [Snuć miłość…] Adama Mickiewicza
On the Silk Side of the Poem [Snuć miłość…] by Adam Mickiewicz

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a trace of the presence of St. Teresa of Avila in the poetry of Adam Mickiewicz. It is an attempt to interpret the poem [Snuć miłość...] [To spin love…] in the context of the image of a silkworm from the treatise Zamek wewnętrzny czyli Mieszkania [Internal Castle or Flats]. It resembles the editorial and comparative findings of the researchers of “pondering in Lausanne” in order to emphasise the main meaning of the first line of the work: “Snuć miłość jak jedwabnik nić wnętrzem swym snuje” [To spin love like a silkworm spinning the thread with his inside”. The zoological contexts lead to mystical entomology.

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