Elegia na śmierć idylli. Żywioł metapoezji w twórczości Juliusza Słowackiego (uwagi o poemacie „W Szwajcarii”)
An elegy on the death of the pastoral. The metapoetic thread in Juliusz Słowacki’s writings (remarks on the poem „In Switzerland”)

Author(s): Agnieszka Ziołowicz
Subject(s): Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The article concerns the metapoetic thread in Juliusz Słowacki’s poem In Switzerland. This issue is considered in the context of the author’s travel experience (expedition to the Alps in 1834), as well as the aesthetic thought of Friedrich Schiller and the classical philosophy of beauty by Plato and Plotinus. The issues of the subject of the work come to the fore (autobiographical allusions, poetic activities, selected aspects of internal life and the human condition), as well as its way of perceiving the Alpine landscape through the prism of the oppositions: pastoral ‒ elegiac, naive poetry ‒ sentimental poetry, which is an aesthetic dominant of the work, a cognitive schema to which Słowacki intentionally refers. In the light of detailed analyses, the poem In Switzerland turns out to be a work about the sources and mechanisms of creativity, a multi-faceted self-presentation of the Romantic creative self. The culmination of this process is the creation of the poet’s personal myth as Endymion, which finds an analogy in the works of John Keats.

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