Edward Stachura i Salvatore Quasimodo – poeci w kąpieli
Edward Stachura and Salvatore Quasimodo – Poets in the Bath

Summary/Abstract: Edward Stachura and Salvatore Quasimodo often refer to the element of water in their poetry. In the verse of the author of Missa pagana aquatic themes have a vertical nature (rain falls from above, the grass grows) and are combined with joy and hope. Stachura in his poems praises the elements in a pantheistic hymn to nature. Quasimodo, the author of Acque e terre and Òboe sommerso, writes his aquatic impressions as a poetic equivalent of the internal conditions of his lyrical hero: sadness, loneliness, longing for love and fear of death. This strictly hermetic repertoire gives his hero features of Ulysses, Sisyphus and the Prodigal Son, whose search for meaning (going on) makes the lyric poetry of Quasimodo horizontal. The joyful verticality of aquatic lyrics of Stachura and melancholic horizontality of Quasimodo’s poems, force the reader to look into the distance and to put out into the deep! Stachura’s bright lines and dark verses of Quasimodo are an attempt to define man, a kind of poetic anthropology, in which poetry is a kind of illumination and the pursuit of the absolute.

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