Nieśmiertelność kultury i sztuki. Lilith Antoniego Langego.

Abstract

This paper proposes an innovative interpretation of Lilith by Antoni Lange. Lilith is a perfect reflection of the Young Poland moods. In this poem, it is easy to find clues, motifs, symbols typical of contemporary poetics, characteristic of both native and foreign authors. So here is the atmosphere of spleen, there are topos of sailing and travelling, the topos of the seeker, the wanderer, the theme of longing for death, next to perfection achievable in temporality, for fulfilled love and happiness. The feeling of rupture goes hand in hand with disagreement with this state of mind. These are visualisations well known in the works of Tetmajer, Kasprowicz, Rydel, and at the same time inscribed in the poetics of Baudelaire, Rimbaude and Verlaine. In the poem there are discernible elements of Plato's and neoplatonic’s philosophy, which easily diffuse into Lange’s contemporary concepts. All these should attend on the decryption of the most important sense of the culture and the art.