Przestrzeń kosmosu w poezji maryjnej

Abstract

This article aims at showing the sources of spatial recognition of Mary in poetry. These are cultural concepts, biblical and religious, and above all durable, versatile designs contained in the human psyche, mainly in the spatial aspects of the Great Feminine, which include the archetypes of the Great Mother and the anima. In Neuman writing (followed by C.G. Jung) Mary is localized at the peak of the Great Feminine transformation. Spatial and subconscious cultural factors that are framing it, appear in the poetic shapesthus they occurto us „real”. Such approach involves Marian poetry’s proper attitude to faith towards the ultimate reality, which may be found in many poems written by M. K. Sarbiewski, L. Kondratowicz, K. Antoniewicz or B. Obertyńska). Other poets, for instance, Cz. Milosz, R. Brandstaetter and J. Twardowski in return to a personal “reality” of Mary, exeed spatial, visible and expressible views in a direction “quite different”, completely transcendent what constitute the impassable limit of poetic knowledge and the limits of language. Under these conditions, the poets are opening up to a sense that is coming from the outside, from a source of transcendent Mary. Transcendence representation itself indicates that the line of poetry proves to hold the characteristics of an icon within the meaning which is presented by J. L. Marion. This in turn touches on the issues of the recognition of the transcendent Mary in spatial, cosmological and natural images literally derived from the human imagination. That is closer to the opposition and a lower than icon category of the idol.