Doświadczając obcego świata – groteska w poezji Johna Keatsa i Percy’ego Bysshe Shelleya
Experiencing an alien world – the grotesque in the poetry of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Author(s): Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys
Subject(s): Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: grotesque; romantic poetry; John Keats; Percy Bysshe Shelley
Summary/Abstract: This article aims at analysing grotesque motifs and their function in selected poems by John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley. In their poetry, the grotesque appears to be not only a recurring element, but rather a key organizational principle, responsible for generating meaning. Through its incongruent, nonsensical, partly comic, partly tragic nature, grotesque imagery shocks, surprises, and facilitates reflection on the paradoxes of the world we live in. Moreover, it frequently records dissatisfaction, disquiet and disillusionment, even serving as an instrument of active critique of political and social reality at the turn of the 19th century.

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