TY - JOUR
TI - Poetry and Existence: The Kingfishers of Adam Zagajewski and Gerard Manley Hopkins
AU - Czabanowska-Wróbel, Anna
TI - Poetry and Existence: The Kingfishers of Adam Zagajewski and Gerard Manley Hopkins
AB - The article presents an interpretation of Adam Zagajewski’s poem “The Kingfisher” from the 2014 volume Asymmetry in the context of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s [“As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame”], whose initial words, cited in English, were used as the motto. The article reviews the motif of the kingfisher in poetry and culture. The possible readings of the poem also relate to the symbolism of colours and fire, through which its ontological and metapoetic senses are revealed.
VL - 2023
IS - Tom 20 zeszyt 1
PY - 2023
SN - 2083-7658
C1 - 2353-1991
SP - 31
EP - 41
DO - 10.4467/23531991KK.23.006.17909
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/konteksty-kultury/artykul/poetry-and-existence-the-kingfishers-of-adam-zagajewski-and-gerard-manley-hopkins