Wisławy Szymborskiej igraszki z agensem i inne osobliwości gramatyczne
Playing with the agent and other structural idiosyncrasies in Wisława Szymborska’s poetical texts
Author(s): Krystyna KallasSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: składnia; fleksja; neologizm; idiosynkrazja; agens; Szymborska; syntax; inflection; neologism; idiosyncrasis; agent
Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to explain the poet’s linguistic creativity. I concentrate on syntactic and inflectional matters. In my view the device of diathesis is the most interesting. The diathesis consists in removing the agent (p. 1.); it is sometimes connected with the alteration of the syntactic characteristics of verbs (p. 2.1.) as well as with the {Die Die sogenannten „unbestimmt – personlichen” Formen in der polnichen Sprache „unbestimmt – personlichen” Formen in der polnichen Sprache} the agent for the experiencer (p. 2.2.). Furthermore, I analyze Szymborska’s inflectional idiosyncrasies (p. 2.3.), I discuss the poet’s original word-formation (p. 2.4.). I also propose an interpretation of the stylistic functions of the discussed poetic devices. Szymborska presents some situations as states or processes which one ultimately experiences as independent of one’s will. I approach these techniques as a manifestation of the poet’s humble attitude to the reality and the role the author or the hero of the poem plays in it.
Journal: Prace Filologiczne
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 60
- Page Range: 119-130
- Page Count: 12
- Language: Polish