Wypatrywanie jako źródło natchnienia poetów
Gazing outward as a source of inspiration for poets

Author(s): Jędrzej Kałuża
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The main purpose of the article is to present the gaze outward as a cognitive element of metaphysical and transcendental space. Gazing outward was characterized as the main source of poets’ inspiration. In order to prove the assumed hypothesis, texts of various scientific fields such as sociology, philosophy and psychology were compared. They were also reaching out directly to the metaphors, philosophical treatises and poetry. Reflections on the essence of gazing outward were discussed and the repression of it by the consumerism in the contemporary society was presented. The article attempts to bring the subject to the reader’s attention, and above all, it focuses on two main research problems. The first questions whether all individuals are capable of gazing outward or is it only a feature of creators? The second concern is searching for the answers in terms of whether poets or philosophers reuse the non‑material world to look at the description of the outside world? The answers to those questions were entirely left to the leader because this article aims to be an impulse for deeper reflection on the essence and role of gazing outward.

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