Industrialne podróże Cypriana Norwida

Abstract

The article is an attempt to tell about the journeys of Cyprian Norwid through the largest industrial centers in the world. The author starts from the first trip of Norwid who led to Warsaw. Stereotypical aversion to the city prevails in works written at that time. It is like an introduction to the main part of the article, which is travels to Paris, New York and London. The poems created during these journeys have a completely different meaning – although the reluctance of the city has not disappeared from them, but has been significantly transformed – Norwid tries to show them how the position of man in the industrial world has changed, what he must face every day and how difficult he is not to get lost in the overwhelming crowd and noise. In the end, the author tries to combine the poet’s impressions of traveling through the centers of industrialization with those he drew from the journeys and memories of “universal” Italian cities in which the present was intertwined with the past.