Wołanie anioła i milczenie poety: „Modlitwa” Cypriana Norwida w kontekście psychologii procesu twórczego
The Call of an Angel and the Poet’s Silence: Cyprian Norwid’s Modlitwa in the Context of the Psychology of the Creative Process

Summary/Abstract: Cyprian Norwid’s "Modlitwa" (“The Prayer”) is a poem that has already triggered a number of absorbing interpretations, but so far it has not been analysed from the psychological point of view, to be more precise, from the point of view of Howard Gardner’s creativity theory. The recurring themes of silence and the despair of a poet pleading for the voice are now open to alternative reading, which does not at all dismiss previous interpretations but simply complements them with a missing element − a component that admits poet’s subjectivity and the possibility to regard the poem in reference to creative experience and which, at the same time, helps to avoid the pitfalls of biographism and psychologism. Also, the interpretation in question brings to fruition the original methodological postulates, which propose to use psychology in literary research.

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