Persona liryczna w wierszach Cypriana Norwida i Emily Dickinson
A Lyrical Persona in the Poems of Cyprian Norwid and Emily Dickinson

Summary/Abstract: The study is devoted to personological analysis of the one-hundred-poem collectionentitled Vade-mecum by Cyprian Norwid in the light of advanced and, above all, multidimensionalresearch on the personology of the subject of creative activities of EmilyDickinson’s poems. Based to a large extent on Robert Weisbuch’s complex terminology fromthe canonical volume Emily Dickinson’s Poetry, using his typology of lyrical personas, theresearcher on Norwid gains important, additional comparative literature tool allowing, e.g.the juxtaposition alongside each other of the types of poetry written by Norwid, Dickinsonand Baudelaire (Norwid’s and Dickinson’s lyrical persona is – it seems – a mixture ofa “wounded dialectician” and “engaging sufferer”, Baudelaire’s persona is, in turn, themarriage of features of an “engaging sufferer” and “withdrawn bard”). This is how the premodernist“theatre of personas” is created, the stronger that – which I am trying to emphasizein this text – despite appearances, it is possible to find similarities in the poetic languagebetween the works of Norwid and Dickinson. In the same way, Norwid and Dickinson – inorder to build their lyric – use a poetic function in the Jakobsonian sense: on the one hand,they strengthen and intensify its impact, on the other hand, they use it to “cover up” thephenomenon of linguistic disintegration of the world for which Modernist lyric poetryserved in a special way as a detector, a kind of litmus paper.

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