Ja - Duch : o podmiocie "Króla-Ducha"

Abstract

The author bases her argument on the analysis of three genres determining the conception of the subject of a poem. These are a narrative poem, autobiography and confirmation-confession. What these different genres have in common is one thing, namely an attitude towards the truth. A narrative poem was to present a mythic truth, while autobiography, in accordance with Lejeune’s thesis, is based on an autobiographic pact assuming sincerity. A confrontation of these genres makes everything that happens in the subject obtain a higher rank. “I” has an extremely sublime position. Yet, confession is a genre in which “I” “belittlement” happens, on the other hand, and the subject frees from him/herself, and leaves a space in him/herself for God. Hence, what follows is a transition of a lyrical “I” from the sphere of “a human being” to the sphere of “a ghost”.