Bolesław Leśmian

In the interwar period, Bolesław Leśmian (The poet lived in the years 1878-1937), which debuted at the end of the period of young Poland, published two very important volumes of poetry in the history of Polish lyrics: Meadow (1920) and Shady drink (1936) – A collection of poems of this author has already appeared posthumously Forest history (1938).

The first of the interwar volumes, entitled Meadow (For example, it comes from it. below Stew), introduces the thread of seeking the meaning of the world to Leśmian's poetry, which motive is, The topic will be constantly developed in this lyrics, considered in new contexts. He is accompanied by two essentially important myths: primitive man and a return to the nature also sought after in the interior of a man, Not only in the world around him. Ultimately, this "union with nature", return to nature, reconcilement with her turns out to be impossible. By destroying this myth, Leśmian refers to motifs derived from folk work, folk stylizations, Pobudni poems with various forms derived from folklore, why is invariably accompanied by a brilliant language intuition (Leśmian made a significant renewal of the poetic language), inventiveness, Successful experiments in a lexical layer primarily, but also syntactic, Experiences also including versification forms.

Shady drink i Forest history they bring slightly different distribution of accents, The poet is interested in these volumes above all universal matters: Eternal issues of man and God, death, existence, or not, afterlife. The problem of the sense of earthly life is often considered in the context of questioning the legitimacy of religious faith. Love in Leśmian's late work is a counterweight for this thread – often included in the so -called. Franciscan. The interwar work of Leśmian is video poetry, creating completely new worlds and at the same time realistic, fairy -tale, fantastic, but also saturated with specifics, even references to real details.