Homo Sapiens Innocens. Wisława Szymborska’s (Eco)poetic Project

Review article

Abstract

Nature occupies one of the most important topics in Wisława Szymborska’s poetry, where the lyrical subject is always positioned in relation to other beings and within the perspective of an extended time span. The author of this article, in accentuating the anthropocentric perspective on Szymborska’s poetry, proposes a reading of her poetry in the context of ecopoetry. She understands it, following Julia Fiedorczuk, as a call to reevaluate the relationship between the human and non-human world, to reflect, with the aid of poetry, on the relationship between poetry and the natural world, and also to lift the dualism between nature and culture.