The role of rationality in shaping the poetic vision of the world (exemplified by the modeling of the meaning of fern in Young Poland’s texts) Cover Image

Rola racjonalności w kształtowaniu poetyckiego obrazu świata (na przykładzie modelowania znaczenia paproci w tekstach Młodej Polski)
The role of rationality in shaping the poetic vision of the world (exemplified by the modeling of the meaning of fern in Young Poland’s texts)

Author(s): Beata Kuryłowicz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: fabulous rationality; creative rationality; a poetic vision of the world.

Summary/Abstract: This article is an attempt at showing how various rationalities, fabulous and creative, influence the organization of the content in a work of poetry, how they intermingle and shape an informative value of a word and how, on a higher level, they decide about the form of a cognitive model. Moreover, the article shows how a change in the perspective of the vision of reality in a poetic work enriches the senses whereas the coexistence of two types of rationality and semantic tensions resulting from this coincidence generates new meanings determined by a special context that a word is used in. The impact of various types of rationality on shaping the meaning of a word in the text has been discussed following the example of the semantics of fern in Young Poland’s poetry.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 99-114
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish