Poeta w kajaku. (Bez)ruch i (a)symetria jako kategorie przestrzeni w poetyckich obrazach jezior i rzek Leszka A. Moczulskiego i Zbigniewa Chojnowskiego
A Poet in a canoe. (Im)mobility and (a)symmetry as the categories of space in poetical images of lakes and rivers by L. A. Moczulski and Z. Chojnowski

Summary/Abstract: The images of lakes and rivers situated in Suwałki, Warmia and Mazurian Regions in the poetry by Leszek A. Moczulski and Zbigniew Chojnowski are constructed on the basis of the space categories related to mobility, immobility, symmetry and asymmetry. A canoe trip, which evokes the aforementioned categories, becomes a metaphor of life or subject’s condition. The properties of lakes/rivers and their activity in the aquatic imagination of authors combine with the issue of individual and collective memory/ oblivion, religious experience, anthropology and history of lands described in the poems. Especially in the poetry of Zbigniew Chojnowski, the lake is the centre of life formation (also an ontogenetic metaphor), the lake’s rhythm determines the subject’s existence. In the poems, the element of water favours also the sexualisation of poetical images.

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