„Treść, gdy w rytm się stacza” – Leśmian i symbolistyczna fascynacja rytmem
“When the content becomes the rhythm” – Leśmian and a Symbolic Fascination with Rhythm

Summary/Abstract: The comparative sketch is an attempt towards the analysis of rhythm in the light of the key concepts of French symbolic poets. The reconstruction of Leśmian’s views is based on his treatises on the role of rhyme and rhythm in poetry: Rhythm as a world view, At the sources of rhythm, On mediation of poetry. An important context of those views are the ideas of Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud – the poets important for Leśmian. Such symbolist relations make it possible to distinguish three aspects of rhythm in Leśmian’s poetry: rhythm as an element of poetics (theory of poetic language, rhythm distinguishes poetry from prose), anthropological element (relation with the rhythm of nature, a man’s body, rhythm breaks with everyday routine) and metaphysical element (rhythm of universe). In effect, Leśmian’s approach proves to be an original in Polish literature proposition of noticing a music dimension of poetry.

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