Parada brodatych i łysych w „Ogrodzie fraszek” Wacława Potockiego
A parade of the bearded and the bald in „A Garden of Trifles” by Wacław Potocki

Author(s): Weronika Kocela
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Wacław Potocki; occasional poetry; baldness; bears; epigrams
Summary/Abstract: The article aims to discuss the poems collected in the volume „A Garden of Trifles” by Wacław Potocki, in which the author presents the portraits of bearded and bald people. The focus on these particular characteristics is motivated by an inquiry into the reasons for the use of such characteristic features of the male physiognomy in Potocki’s poetry. On the one hand, they seem to direct the reader towards the notions of the concept and the symbol, while, on the other hand, they appear to stem from the author’s authentic interest in the surrounding world and his scrupulous study of the changes in human physiognomy.

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