Owady w poezji Jerzego Lieberta

Abstract

Statistically, among not particularly abundant and diverse fauna depicted in Liebert’s poems, insects – including the metaphorically depicted ones – occupy one of the focal positions next to the usually exposed birds. The author of the article pays close attention to the poet’s actions that seem to be hiding (concealing) the existential anxieties: idyllic miniaturization of the world of insects and the “sterile” visions of the decomposition of the human body, referring itself to the costume of nature that both unconceals and conceals the drama (e.g., the human as the cosmic insect). Such endeavors are interpreted as attempts to mollify an insurmountable baroque feeling of being torn between the first (earthly) and the second (heavenly) homeland.