Naturalna oddychacja ćwiczenia z respirologii poetyckiej
Natural Breathation Exercises in Poetic Respirology

Summary/Abstract: Poetry is the breath of language. It animates language and grants it volatility. It is the reason why words resemble a gulp of air. At the same time, it allows them to breathe. In the light of such theses the author of this article analyses and interprets the “last poem” by Wisława Szymborska – a note written by the poet in hospital shortly before her death. Deciphering the note shows the way in which the “last will” of the author of Sto pociech transformed a poetic joke into an existentially enrooted act of the freedom of suitably used words, their living breath creating a powerful counterpoint for the last breath. It also demonstrates how Szymborska’s note opens a perspective for joint human experiences associated with the “battle for breath” and for profoundness opening up in each breath – also in the last one.

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