Obraz miasta w poezji Władimira Korwin-Piotrowskiego

Abstract

Vladimir Korvin-Piotrovskiyi (1891–1966) is recognised as a representative of the First Wave of Russian Emigration. Poems devoted to the metropolis theme deserve special attention among all of his works. This motif plays vague role in the author’s creative activity and frequently becomes the leading idea of his poems. Undoubtedly, the influence of Russian poetry and German expressionism can be traced in Korvin-Piotrovskiyi’s lines devoted to the picture of a city. Metropolis is depicted in negative way in the author’s works under investigation. Korvin-Piotrovskiyi presents specific phenomena from the city life, underlines details of urban landscape, records the sound (penetrating, hard, unpleasant) and colours (especially grey and black), shows suspicious places, criminal circles. The poet leaves his lyrical subject on the borderline between the real and fantastic worlds. In his poetic visions Korvin-Piotrovskiyi appeals to the traditional symbolism (mist, mirror, black, flight), to the literary tradition, links them with contemporary realities.