Ut pictura poesis u Adama Ważyka

Abstract

Literature, especially in the 20th century poetry, includes texts in which cubistic and surrealistic order is present. In order to analyse and interpret them, you need to rely on experiencing the paintings that realise assumptions of these schools, for example Braque’s and Chagall’s. It allows to understand that, similarly to linguistic communicates, culturebased texts – paintings and lyric poetry – require a complement. In cubism, the complement is metaphorical, in surrealism it is metonymical. It can be seen in the poem by Adam Ważyk An attempt (Próba).