Imagination Organized: The Poetics of Jan Brzękowski’s Poem Kolory Cover Image

Wyobraźnia zorganizowana. Poetyka wiersza kolory Jana Brzękowskiego
Imagination Organized: The Poetics of Jan Brzękowski’s Poem Kolory

Author(s): Alicja Smaruj
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: lyric poetry; poetic avant-garde; poetic imagination; poetics; metaphor

Summary/Abstract: The article interprets Jan Brzękowski’s poem kolory [couleurs]. Accepting the assumption that the reading of the Cracow avant-garde poetry, including Brzękowski’s works, requires the textual approach, the author of the article gives an in-depth discussion of rhetorical figures (especially metaphors) and symbolic motifs (metals, colours, weather phenomena). Such reading of kolory turns the poem into a statement about the unique psychological (or even spiritual) experience of the lyrical self, who, after a crisis of darkness, has an insight “in the breaking dawn”.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 243-250
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish