Mystical Vision − Poetical Vision. Entanglements of the Late Poetry of Mickiewicz and Słowacki Cover Image

Wizja mistyczna − wizja poetycka. Sploty późnej poezji Mickiewicza i Słowackiego
Mystical Vision − Poetical Vision. Entanglements of the Late Poetry of Mickiewicz and Słowacki

Author(s): Leszek Zwierzyński
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Adam Mickiewicz;Juliusz Słowacki;mysticism;imagination;epiphany;

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to describe a model of mystical poetry in Polish Romanticism. The analysis begins with a look at the image of the mystical vision in Adam Mickiewicz’s poem − “Widzenie” [“The Vision”]. Next, the importance of the Lausanne poems, with their transcendent poetic forms that show the otherness of the mystical being, is presented. Afterwards, a description of how Słowacki develops these poetic forms in the genesis poetry is provided. Słowacki created a set of exceptional poetic techniques that present many aspects of the transcendent world. The most unusual, apophatic phenomena of Słowacki’s poetry were also examined. It has been shown how these late poetic forms lead poetic cognition outside of Being and into the space of the Divine Pre-Ground. These turn out to be close to the mysticism of Böhme and Eckhart.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 10 (13)
  • Page Range: 17-34
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish