The article is focused on the early poetry of Krystyna Miłobędzka viewed from
the perspective of the so-called turn towards the things context known from the literary
and anthropological studies. The prose poems from Miłobędzka’s debut called
Anaglify are chosen for analysis and interpretation. The author discusses the most crucial
elements of the background of the texts: the circumstances of Miłobędzka’s debut,
consequences of the events of 1956 and the turn towards ordinary things and daily
life in the Polish poetry of 1960s. Miłobędzka’s attitude to the material world is presented
in the light of the beginnings of modernism (C.K. Norwid) and the postwar poetry
concerned with the “life” of objects (M. Białoszewski, Z. Herbert, T. Różewicz).
The poetic contemplation of the world of things in Anaglify is confronted with the late
philosophy of Martin Heidegger, especially his considerations about the Tool-Being
and Thing. Miłobędzka explores the relations between humans and objects, taking
the non-anthropocentric perspective and trying to capture the essence of their and our
being-in-the-world. In her poetic vision, the thing seems to be released from the obligation
to be ready-to-hand and reveals its individual dimension of “being.”
The article is focused on the early poetry of Krystyna Miłobędzka viewed from
the perspective of the so-called turn towards the things context known from the literary
and anthropological studies. The prose poems from Miłobędzka’s debut called
Anaglify are chosen for analysis and interpretation. The author discusses the most crucial
elements of the background of the texts: the circumstances of Miłobędzka’s debut,
consequences of the events of 1956 and the turn towards ordinary things and daily
life in the Polish poetry of 1960s. Miłobędzka’s attitude to the material world is presented
in the light of the beginnings of modernism (C.K. Norwid) and the postwar poetry
concerned with the “life” of objects (M. Białoszewski, Z. Herbert, T. Różewicz).
The poetic contemplation of the world of things in Anaglify is confronted with the late
philosophy of Martin Heidegger, especially his considerations about the Tool-Being
and Thing. Miłobędzka explores the relations between humans and objects, taking
the non-anthropocentric perspective and trying to capture the essence of their and our
being-in-the-world. In her poetic vision, the thing seems to be released from the obligation
to be ready-to-hand and reveals its individual dimension of “being.”
