Kamień i krew. Obraz miasta – świadka historii w poezji polskiej drugiej połowy XIX wieku

Abstract

The article presents several poems of the Polish positivist era which raise both urban and historical issues. Such a focus allows the analysis to point out descriptive patterns ascribed to particular cities and to describe the dominant topics chosen (the motif of death, mourning, martyrdom, slavery) which comprise them, as well as the repository of symbols, allegories and literary allusions used to construct them.