W poszukiwaniu „złotego fotonu”, czyli o pożytkach z nauk ścisłych w poezji Andrzeja Buszy
In search of “the golden photon”: scientific motifs in Andrzej Busza’s poetry

Author(s): Janusz Pasterski
Subject(s): Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Andrzej Busza; emigration; poetry; science;
Summary/Abstract: The paper explores the role of scientific motifs in the poetry of Andrzej Busza. Scientific subject matter, which does not occur too frequently in contemporary lyric poetry, has been present in Busza’s work since his first volume Znaki Wodne… (1969), but it has become more prevalent in recent volumes. Busza’s reflective and cerebral poetry tends towards generalization and synthesis. Less concerned with the mundane and transient vibrations of sensation and feeling, it gravitates towards symbolic formulations and favours sparing imagery and the compression of metaphor. These are tendencies that one associates with scientific thought and perspective on the world, rational, universalizing, resorting to metaphor and analogy. Focusing on poems which refer to quantum mechanics and astronomy, the author discusses the artistic and cognitive aspects of these allusions. He concludes that they are related to the poet’s essentially rationalist, scientific worldview.

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