Wilno Krystyny Koneckiej

Abstract

The text provides an analysis of the motifs in the poetic works of the contemporary Polish poet Krystyna Konecka. The poet was born on October 23 1945, several months after her parents had left Vilnius and settled in Dobiegniew near Gorzow Wielkopolski, in the town that become a symbolic end of the history of the borderland family Subocz. Although the life of the future poet started in Vilnius, she was able to see the city with her own eyes only decades later. This premature, undeserved exile from the place of birth carries a certain stigma, a fate that determines the topos of her early works, but also the motifs of her personal life. Not connected in time with the city of her ancestors, she was unable to take roots in any other place. She lived in Dobiegniew, Tychy, Katowice, finally in Białystok, before she managed to feel at home in this last city in Eastern Poland. Konecka is considered to be a master of the form of sonnet. This was the main lyric genre that she used to write about Vilnius and her returns to the city.