Wokół semantyki dźwięków i ciszy w liryce Kazimierza Przerwy-Tetmajera

Abstract

The paper deals with a connection between acoustic imagination and Kazimierz Tetmajers biography which became tied up in the poets early youth and not only define his early works, but also influence a work as a whole. The themes of poetic (acoustic) imagination reflect Tetmajers existential project. When analysing the poets pro-aesthetic attitude as sensitivity to the sound aspect of nature, we notice that sensory experience plays an initiating and vital role in illustrating and constructing reflections concerning the aesthetic experience ofthe world and adding sounds associated with crags, spruces, flocks ofsheep and Tatra shepherds to poems. A creation (memory and recollection) ofthe sounds of(Tatra) nature is associated with an ambivalence ofthemes: happiness (love) and loneliness. Three areas of Tetmajers thematic exploitation - loss of faith and hope (pessimist-desperate themes), eroticism and Tatra poems - create a semantics ofsilence and sound eruption (Tatra poetry) and evoke the style of conversation (eroticism). They are an echo oflonging for the past, protecting the eternity of memories as a testament ofidentity and, at the same time, an awareness of passing away and the tragedy ofirretrievableness of experience.