‘My Gaze as Sharp as a Pin / Penetrates the World’: The Colourful Dailiness in the Poetry of Zuzanna Ginczanka

Karolina Król

doi:10.18778/2299-7458.08.23

Authors

Karolina Król Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4082-2183

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2299-7458.08.23

Keywords:

Ginczanka, poetry, sight, colours, Skamander, nature, city

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to present preliminary research results on the sight-centrism of the poetry written by Zuzanna Ginczanka. The author of the article draws attention to a paradox: it is the sight that is favoured in Ginczanka’s poems, and sight is traditionally perceived as ‘masculine’, intellectual, as opposed to ‘feminine’ senses that are more focused on touch. One of the more important features of sight-centrism in Ginczanka’s works is the observation of hues which may be found in the world. The paper investigates whether colours in this poetry change after the author of Of Centaurus moves to Warsaw. The consistency of poetic imagery placing the human being in natural landscapes rather than the urban space forces the researcher to reflect on the affiliation of Ginczanka with the Skamander group.

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Author Biography

Karolina Król, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Karolina Król – a third-year student of Polish philology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In 2019, she became a laureate of the ‘Best Student Grant’ programme and she carried out the project titled “Czesław Miłosz and Stanisław Barańczak: Parallels and Splits as Exemplified by the Reception of The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann in the Works of the Two Poets”. She is interested in the 20th- and 21st-century poetry as well as works centred around the issue of the Holocaust.

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