Kreacja przestrzeni wiejskiej w liryce dziecięcej Marii Konopnickiej

Abstract

The paper describes educational mechanisms in Maria Konopnicka’s poems for children containing images of rural landscape. In the world created by the analysed poems an important role is played by children, who - together with ever-accompanying animals, horses and mongrel-dogs - shape that space with their natural activities - work and play. The poems are a poetic list of the basic elements of the rural world; the reality they create is rather conventional in character. Konopnicka’s poems - a very particular kind of guide (specific role of pronouns here and our) - take the child- reader for a walk around the rural space, make him or her familiar with folk culture, raise their interest in the world, enrich their knowledge and - most of all - bring them in closer contact with the human and natural environment. The child-reader gets to know the reality also through the senses, thanks to abundant images and onomatopoeias. The poetics of the interpreted poems suggests perception mechanisms suited to psycho-physical condition of child-readers; the kind of playful education used by the poetess has not become archaic, it is still innovatory.