Ironia wobec braku w liryce Młodej Polski

Abstract

The article focuses on different poetic attempts to assume an ironic attitude towards the universe. The universe under consideration is understood and perceived as a void which seems to be difficult to work out without an ironic distance. The poetic voices in Tetmajer’s, Staff’s or Miciński’s poems are very often victims of their ubiquitous irony. They also become ironic towards the defective world, which magnifies and sanctions its own annihilation. The irony renders any truth impossible to be attained; besides, in the act of chasing it, the truth is gone. Still, the ironic destruction of values can be defeated by means of self-mockery.