Poezja miłosna jako typ quasi-poradnika

Abstract

The material analyzed seems to suggest that love poetry may – with some reservations – be treated as a guidebook of discursive intimacy and non-cliché discourse. This is why the title of this article uses the term quasi-guidebook, i.e. a pseudo-guidebook, a guidebook-like publication. A sensitive reader will certainly be able to find elements of guidance in such works: a certain template or anti-template of love, models of conceptualizing the phenomena connected with the creation of a certain emotional sphere. Every author presents his/her own vision of love, creating and visualizing a specific methodology of behavior of people in love. Indirectly, s/he also gives hints connected with organizing one’s life when it is subjugated to love, both happy and unhappy love, in its spiritual and physical dimensions. The poetic tropes are sometimes accompanied with a whole repertoire of grammatical, lexical and stylistic devices which are typically used in guidebooks to instruct readers and provide guidance