“Turn back the course of a river / the course of life / that is my mission.” On the poems by Wincenty Różański

Abstract

The article is an attempt at discussing the most important features of Wincenty Różański’s poetry written in the final years of his creative period. This poetry is strongly subjective, manifesting the poet’s Catholicism, and entrusting himself to the Blessed Virgin Mary, but it also tackled the subject of everyday life, routine behaviors and activities. In addition, the poet’s poems are characteristic in terms of their dialogical and stylistic relations compared to other cultural contexts, especially in the case of Grzegorz Ratajczyk’s paintings, as well as the prose and poems by Edward Stachura.