Wizualizacja rodzinnej ziemi w poemacie Karola Brzozowskiego

Abstract

This paper endeavors to renew scientific interest in Karol Brzozowski’s poem entitled Noc strzelców w Anatolii (The Night of Shooters in Anatolia, 1856), which has been unjustly forgotten by literary critics, editors and literary canons. The poem was inspired by literary masterpieces of Polish Romanticism, such as Adam Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz (Sir Thaddeus, 1834) and Wincenty Pol’s Pieśń o ziemi naszej (A Song of Our Land, 1843). This article reveals the aesthetic, poetic and narrative qualities of the poem, which elements constitute its beauty and novelty, particularly with regard to a poetic tale and description, where it is possible to discern elements of Romantic improvisation as well as visual and linguistic disharmonies of expressionist character. Brzozowski’s poem presents a symbolic space of homeland with its lush flora and fauna, natural phenomena, images of home, fields, forests and landscapes of historic regions of Poland around Warsaw and borderlands of Southwest Lithuania. This expanse is filled with inner landscapes of archetypal character, remembered and recorded sensually and emotionally in the subconsciousness of the narrator and the characters of the poem. These artistic and ideological features herald the future movement of Neo‑Romanticism.