OBRAZ DZIECKA W ZABAWIE W TWÓRCZOŚCI JÓZEFA RATAJCZAKA
THE PICTURE OF A PLAYING CHILD IN JÓZEF RATAJCZAK’S WRITINGS

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses poetic pictures of children’s games in Józef Ratajczak’s works in the context of scholarly theories about the role of playing in a child’s life and development. His poems prove the thesis about the great role of playing, which inspires the child intellectually and evokes his emotional, esthetic and social growth. In numerous works, the poet depicts a child playing physical, constructional and topic (symbolic) games. His poetic pictures have widened the area of the child subjectivity, highlighted the child’s inner values, necessary in the acts of his creativity, like spontaneity and freedom. The latter one together with imagination forms the very fundamental quality of child’s creation, which connects the child with culture, making him a unique symbol and personal model of a human being in general, and of an artist and a poet in particular. Unselfishness, beauty and good of the child’s creation become what the world’s order is based on and what contributes to the reasonable participation of a man in the existence of all the capacity of human and natural living. Playing satisfies the need of a child for active cognition and creative transformation of the world – this scholarly thought finds confirmation in Józef Ratajczak’s poems for children, moreover, it becomes a poetic metaphor of an optimistic, peaceful and pro-ecological vision of the world, as well as a condition of a good existence of the adult world.

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