The eagle from Rzecz o wolności słowa
The eagle from Rzecz o wolności słowa
Author(s): Piotr ChlebowskiSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: Palmyra; Norwid; Volney; Wood; ruins; temple; eagle; Rzecz o wolności słowa [On the Freedom of the Word]
Summary/Abstract: The article attempts at explaining the motif of the eagle which appears in the final Song XIV in the poem Rzecz o wolności słowa. Previous scholars have unambiguously associated this symbolic vision with the apocalypse and with the figure of St John. The reading of Volney’s Travels through Syria and Egypt, supported by the source description of Palmyra’s ruins from Robert Wood’s The Ruines of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor, in the Desert (1753), points rather to an archaeological source of Norwid’s imagery – the image of the ruins of the Palmyrene Temple of the Sun (Baal).
Journal: Studia Norwidiana
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 37EV
- Page Range: 199-214
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English