„I who am immersed in the dark rays of the earth”

Adam FITAS

John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin , Poland


Abstract

The essay includes a reflection on the earthly homeland and its heavenly counterpart put forward in the context of Zbigniew Herbert’s poem “Daedalus and Icarus,” which provided the title of the considerations. The analysis in question refers also to other pieces of Polish poetry (by Cyprian Norwid and Aleksander Wat). The main idea is developed against the background of the opposition between the light and the darkness which surfaces in all the poems taken into account.

Translated by Dorota Chabrajska

Keywords:

światło, ciemność, Ikar, Dedal, ojczyzna




Published
2017-06-30


FITAS, A. (2017). „Ja zatopiony w ciemnych promieniach ziemi”. Ethos. Kwartalnik Instytutu Jana Pawła II KUL, 30(2), 261–263. https://doi.org/10.12887/30-2017-2-118-17

Adam FITAS 
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin



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