„Na nagłej i niespodziewanej sprężynie!”, czyli "Makowskie bajki" jako pogranicze poezji dziecięcej i poetyckiego mitu dziecka

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„Na nagłej i niespodziewanej sprężynie” - Makowskie bajki as a borderland of children poetry and the poetic myth of a child

This paper reads Jerzy Ficowski’s Makowskie bajki, a poetry volume/series written under the influence of chosen Tadeusz Makowski’s paintings, as a separate work situated somewhere in the ‘borderland’ of children and adult literature, or as literature that does not clearly define its target. The main context for this interpretation of the cycle are mainly children poems by Ficowski. Some of his early poems from 1957-1974, especially the Zmierzch o świcie poem, are significant as sources of the artistic myth of a child, derived from the visions of Bruno Schulz and Witold Wojtkiewicz, visions troubling and extending beyond the children’s understanding. The paper examines the artistic consequences of the inspirations coming from both sides of this literary border.

Key words: children literature; poetry for children; poetic myth; literary borderland; childhood; poetry series; Tadeusz Makowski;