Pielgrzym wieczny Cypriana Norwida
The Eternal Pilgrim of Cyprian Norwid

Summary/Abstract: The article is a presentation of the motive of a pilgrim in Cyprian Norwid’s writings. The author of the outline places the pilgrim in the context of European symbolism, drawing attention to lyrical poems of Artur Rimbaud and Reiner Maria Rilke. Thus the text denies the importance of Norwid’s relation with Romantic tradition which so far has determined the image of Norwid’s wanderer. The pilgrim is a humble servant of ‘silent sky’ and he constantly watches the light-musical movement of the sky on earth. Norwid’s wanderer represents times of ‘urbanization of religion’, when faith ‘steps’ on earth, while co-realization of the faith is semantically marked metaphor and broadly understood reality.

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