Open AccessDotyk metafory. O metapoetyckich aspektach dotyku (głównie) w Sadzie rozstajnym Bolesława Leśmiana
Author(s) -
Rafał Milan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
wielogłos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2084-395X
pISSN - 1897-1962
DOI - 10.4467/2084395xwi.16.021.6405
Subject(s) - poetry , metaphor , inscribed figure , materiality (auditing) , shadow (psychology) , philosophy , plot (graphics) , relation (database) , art , literature , field (mathematics) , aesthetics , psychology , computer science , theology , psychoanalysis , mathematics , statistics , geometry , database , pure mathematics
The text is an attempt to widen the study fi eld dealing with the senses in the world implied by the poetry of Bolesław Leśmian by including the so far neglected aspect of the essential role of touch in creating this world. The metapoetic refl ection, inscribed in poems coming mainly from Leśmian’s first volume and being often the source and part of their plot, suggests the integral relation between the process of metaphorization (or, process of realizing a metaphor) and acting through touch in the presented reality. Thus understood, touch does not, however, constitute a simple metaphor of a creative act; rather, it problematizes the very (im)possibility of going beyond the "tangible" materiality of the text. The interpretations carried out make it possible to visualize a specific - poetic - modality of touch, which is close to caress - as defi ned by Lévinas. In the face of the literary "reflexiveness" of that sense, the poem touches upon the non-literary reality like a shadow portending that which is not yet present