Between God and Nature. Word and music in the Leśmian’s world

Abstract

This essay shows how multidirectional relations between the words and the music are bound in Leśmian’s world. The medium is a human being, a poet-singer oversensitive to the voice of being, who turns music into words and reaches the state of exaltation thanks to music at the same time. The music permeates the poet who should let it speak out inside himself and then express it through words. The rhythm perceived as life itself is a part that allows the restricted word to be relieved form the rigid frames of meanings. The relations between the word and the music (and accordingly between God and Nature) can be seen as well in the elements of the world which hasn’t become flesh or turned into music. Thanks to its vital character, music helps to locate Leśmian’s world on the border, on the edge, over the precipice or to incorporate a human being into the Nature. The music itself is sometimes located on the edge of the word, overtaking its part or going into the abyss.