Bronisław Maj – poeta oniryczny?

Abstract

The article is an attempt to the characteristic of poetry written by Bronisław Maj, with the release of her dreamlike dimension. Dream in poems of this contemporary Krakow poet acts as cognitive function. It is also associated with figures of fatigue and breathing, characteristic for the creators of New Wave. In addtion, on May’s onirism affects a free use of the literary tradition of genres such as an epiphany, an elegy and a threnody. The authoress of the article interprets and analyzes the poems from a selection of poems titled Elegies, threnodies, dreams (2003), keeping its compositional order. She comes to the conclusion that the onirsism in the works of Bronisław Maj results from the deep, methaphysical relations to the reality, it hasn’t got the nature of the vision.