Pewność i cień. O sześciu wykładach wierszem Czesława Miłosza

Abstract

The author presents a detailed interpretation of a cycle of six poetic lectures published by Miłosz in the volume "Kroniki" (Chronicles) in 1987. It is the very title that suggests its main topics: history, time, the word, ideology and man struggling with these forces. The researcher discusses the cycle of lectures in the context of modernistic roots of Miłosz's works: decadent moods, Bergson's philosophy, the catastrophe of the Titanic, forming utopias, which will dominate the twentieth century. The interpretation also shows that the poet describing man as a being subject to violence of History and ideology looks at man from the metaphysical point of view. Miłosz views man as a being immersed in the eternal dimension, who emerges in time, in history.