The gardener’s topos based on the example of the poem The Gardener (Ogrodnik) by Czesław Miłosz (text analysis) Cover Image

The gardener’s topos based on the example of the poem The Gardener (Ogrodnik) by Czesław Miłosz (text analysis)
The gardener’s topos based on the example of the poem The Gardener (Ogrodnik) by Czesław Miłosz (text analysis)

Author(s): Monika Anna Noga
Subject(s): Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: topos; topos of the gardener; garden; utopia; God; Satan; paradise; Adam and Eve

Summary/Abstract: “The gardener’s topos based on the example of the poem Ogrodnik by Czesław Miłosz (text analysis)”. The article is a detailed consideration of a poem by Czesław Miłosz entitled Ogrodnik [Gardener]. The main object of the hermeneutic and structural analysis of this poem is the “topos of the gardener”. The analysis is meant to characterize the topos of the gardener and point to the role of a modern poet and modern Polish literature.

  • Issue Year: 55/2019
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 427-449
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: English