Abstract: | The article is an analysis of the argument of two young generation poets, Jacek
Dehnel and Jaś Kapela, being seemingly on the two sides of a poetical barricade (a
high poetry and pop poetry), though in self-representative strategies using similar
tricks, i.e. similar methods of disregarding the literature in favour of promoting
him/herself as a media star. Creations of a lyrical subject in both cases, though
substantially different, are treated by the author of the article as two (finally boiling
down to the same) methods of “debodying” the world, cleaning it out of the meaning,
in the first case by means of an attempt to recharming the reality, in the second by
means of bringing out the mechanism of self-parody. Dehnel, trying to convince
us that he is the poet of a modernist subjectivity, attempts to charm the world, fill
it with the meaning which is no longer there so he contributes to, as Baudrillard
says, a further process of emptying the world from the meaning, multiplication
of illusions and levels of simulacrity while Kapela, as an administrator of waste,
would be an art representative, which parodies itself, and “vomits with itself”, thus,
a postmodern “world debody”. |