(Not only) Baroque Times of Harasymowicz

Abstract

The article focuses on the analyse of the intentional baroque style of Jerzy Harasymowicz’s poetry. The artist’s initial disappointment with the period turned into an actual fascination, which could be seen through the topics of his poems as well as the literary devices. The richness of the used vocabulary and the monumental images come together with his accurate humor and tampering with conventional rules. The baroqueness of the Harasymowicz’s poetry is somewhat more than just a mastery of descriptions and metaphors. It is a form of defiance against uniformization and standarization as the results of implementation of socrealism. The reference to the „national poetry”, which according to the poet was a continuation of the baroque tradi- tion, is also an attempt to undertake the act of national examination of conscience.