Żywioły wody i powietrza w wybranych fragmentach genewskich Zygmunta Krasińskiego

Abstract

This article aims to describe the roles of elements of water and air in selected fragments written by Zygmunt Krasiński during his stay in Geneva (Him, a Piece form a Young Man’s Memoirs; A Dream of ‘un Homme Blasé’). Young Polish poet describes his heroes as ‘children of the century’, suffering from melancholy, seeking death during a lonely cruise over stormy ocean. These visions, however undoubtedly conventional, appear as an interesting dimension of Krasiński’s fascination with death, that characterize his whole literary and epistolary work.