Obrazy mowy (na przykładzie poezji dwudziestowiecznej)

Abstract

In the present article, the speech image category is, on the one hand, connected to the ways of utilizing in somebody else’s speech in poetry, by which an author communicates with a reader (cited in extenso or subjected to transformation – which depends on the author’s invention and the purpose of literary form); and, on the other hand, it is seen as an effect of an artistic strategy assumed by the author. The analysed Wisława Szymborska’s poem enables showing what the consequences of introducing non-literary speech genres and language naturalized in the public sphere – which acquires connotative meaning in poetry – to the plane of a lyrical text are. On the other hand, observations made in the reading of Janusz Szuber’s poems convince that the author – concentrated on the exterior – gives poetry not a descriptive but a narrative character, thus overcoming subjectivity of pure lyric verse. His poetry morphs into a tale reaching out to the world, becomes an interesting lesson of cultural memory and a lesson of forms and media of memory.