Znaki na niebie, wizje, objawienia w Obleżeniu Jasnej Góry Częstochowskiej
Signs on the sky, visions, revelations in Obleżenie Jasnej Góry Częstochowskiej

Author(s): Joanna Chybiorz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The article presents different means of the usage of the portentuous issues in Obleżenie JasnejGóry Częstochowskiej. In the majority of the 17th century epic poems (Jerozolima Wyzwolona, Wojnachocimska), it is connected with the classification of the characters into good and bad. Positivecharacters (Christians, Poles) have a chance of getting to know the future with God’s help whereasthe bad ones, Satan’s henchmen do not have any chances to see it. The author of Obleżenie…, incomparison with Tass and Potocki, uses predictions and prophecies in an original way. Above all,it presents the widest array of the possibilities of the “conversation” with God among which appearsigns on the sky, visions and revelations. The choice of the means is dictated by the person at whomthe prophecy is directed. The attention should be paid to the fact that the anonymous author of theepic poem on the siege of the monastery in Jasna Góra allows for the meeting with God or Maryboth in the case of positive and negative characters, presenting it as an award on the one hand, andthe emphasis of failure on the other.

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