Dziś jest moje umieranie – o "Metempsychozie", ostatnim tomie wierszy Jarosława Marka Rymkiewicza
Today is my dying – on "Metempsychoza", the last book of poems by Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz

Author(s): Olga Masiuk
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: death; poetry; late works; autobiography; Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz
Summary/Abstract: This article is an analysis of Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz’s last book of poems. The poet has often expressed sharp and divisive political opinions. Although his literary works frequently constitute controversial manifestos, such statements do not appear in "Metempsychoza". These very personal poems speak about the universal problem of dying, thus uniting readers and involving them in the text. This volume seems to be a new peculiar version of "Dziady": Rymkiewicz both performs the ritual communion of the living with the dead, and creates a text that can be read as an attempt to transcend the work of Mickiewicz (with whom he was fascinated and to whom he devoted many books). The poet uses myths, plays intertextual games with the works of other poets, builds an interesting rhythmic form of an octostich. Thanks to these procedures, he distracts the readers’ attention and hides himself – the main character of these poems – a man who meets his own death. "Metempsychoza" becomes a moving testimony of dying – daring and masterful.

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