%0 Journal Article
%T Nanomoments and Eons: The Question of Time in Contemporary Polish Poetry (A Reconnaissance)
%J STUDIA PHILOLOGICA
%D 2017
%X The article deals with the manifestation and representation of time in contemporary Polish poetry. The focus of the interpretation, which is an attempt at a philosophical-essayistic reflection on chronocentrism, is on the experience of time by the human subject: modern and postmodern man. The discussed areas of metaphorization (the technologizing metaphors, the metaphors of acceleration), figurations and ways of thematization of the temporal questions reflect the contemporary experience: the ¡°un-time¡± of life, the compression of time, the trauma of temporality, the relativity of humanistic time in regard to the physical time of the clock. The poetry, as the inscribing of the ¡°punctual, present¡±, illustrates the power of time over the human subject; it becomes the resonator of its own epoch. The microanalyses of Mi£¿osz¡¯s, Szymborska¡¯s, Zagajewski¡¯s, Baran¡¯s and Lipska¡¯s poems display the opposite poles of time: the momentary flashes ¨C nanomoments and eons ¨C ¡°centuries of eternity¡±
%K Mi£¿osz^ Zagajewski^ nanomoments^ eons^ metaphors of acceleration^ the ¡°un-time¡± of life.
%U http://journals.uni-vt.bg/studiaphilologica/eng/vol36/iss1/30