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Poetry of point and concepts vs. memory – a thing about the poetic letter To Bronislaw Z.
Abstract
The article presents an analysis of the letter in verse To Bronisław Z[aleski] in connection with reflections on Norwid’s poetics. Already at the start of his poetic career Norwid showed a preference for certain rhetorical figures, such as the epigrammatic „point” and the concetto. These figures (once popular in baroque poetry) often appear in Norwid’s poetry at moments of intellectual dead-lock, a situation which is grasped through paradoxes, and which points to the necessity of creating space in the self for the supernatural, „revealed”, light of faith. In the poetic letter To Bronisław Z[aleski] the poetics of „points” and concetti is closely linked with a multilayered temporal and spatial construction of the represented world which is reminiscent of Proust’s prose. The text presents itself as an internal monologue and establishes a link between the childhood of the speaker and the later times of his exile. The moments from the past are represented as isolated „isles of time”. Their meaning is expressed by pointed, sometimes generalizing statements in the form of concetti. Norwid’s poetic letter owes its specific aura to a combination of the poetics of „points” and concetti with a multilayered, „novelistic”, temporal structure. In this respect the text does not only appear to „sum up” the poet’s life, but it also initiates a new stage in his poetic explorations which – regrettably – was not destined to be continued.
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verse letter, epigrammatic point, concetto, memoryDetails
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