Obituary as a Component of the Elegiac Poetic World and as a Meta-poetic Text in the Selected Pieces by Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki Cover Image

Nekrolog jako składnik elegijnego świata poetyckiego i jako tekst metapoetycki w wybranych utworach Eugeniusza Tkaczyszyna-Dyckiego
Obituary as a Component of the Elegiac Poetic World and as a Meta-poetic Text in the Selected Pieces by Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki

Author(s): Szymon Trusewicz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Poetry, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: necrology; meta-poetics; autothematism; elegy; poetry

Summary/Abstract: The article interprets the selected poems by Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki which use the trope of obituary. The author points out its functions. First, the obituary introduces an elegiac tone that characterizes the poet as a melancholic subject, focused on the theme of a funeral. Second, this form has a meta-poetic function which allows an affective and linguistic reflection on the experience of death.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 17
  • Page Range: 87-98
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish