Uty Przyboś wypatrywanie Sensu w Prostej wobec (meta)fizycznych koncepcji Arystotelesa
Uta Przyboś’s gaze outward for the Meaning in Prosta versus Aristotle’s (meta)physical concepts

Author(s): Przemysław Koniuszy
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: looking for the Meaning; act of affirmation; Uta Przyboś
Summary/Abstract: The subject of this article is the analysis of the poetic volume by Uta Przyboś (Prosta), which exposes the philosophical aspect of this lyric and underlines the multifaceted communication of the worldview of the lyrical persona present in it with the thesis of Aristotle from Metaphysics and Physics. The author taking as his starting point George Steiner’s book The Poetry of Thought makes the main axis of his considerations the problem of gazing outward for the Meaning — common for poets and philosophers seeking sanctions impact on all spiritual and material dimensions of reality including spheres which we have not yet examined. The involvement of philosophical terminology in reading poetry allows us to point out that in Prosta being of the lyrical persona and the surrounding space is constituted by the word of unparalleled creative power. The basic mode of experiencing by the lyrical persona is the admiration and perception of oneself as someone who is worse than nature and beauty. In turn, the principle of the functioning of the lyrical persona is that it is still conflicted between accepting the thesis that the Meaning will always remain unknowable and the overwhelming desire to acquire it. The consequence of this ambivalence is clashing in the poems of many hypotheses regarding what the Meaning could be and emergence of a distinguishing factor of Uta Przyboś idiom, namely the recognition by lyrical persona that each representation of the Meaning in the world should be appreciated by a radical act of affirmation.

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