{"title":"Apis mellifera (Rilke, Leśmian, Valéry, Miłosz)","authors":"T. Wójcik","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0013.3132","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The article concerns Paul Valéry’s sonet The Bee, a fragment of Rainer Maria Rilke’s\nletter to Witold Hulewicz, Boleslaw Lesmian’s poem The Bees and a fragment of Czeslaw\nMilosz’s poem Orpheus and Eurydice. The analysis of the semantic connotations and\nsymbolic meanings of the bee, which appears in these texts, shows them as elements\nof a larger ontological project: an attempt to answer the question of the relation between\nbeing and non-being. In essence, this project denies the division into being and non-\n-being, proposing the concept of a greater whole instead the entrenched opposition.\n\n","PeriodicalId":273824,"journal":{"name":"Leśmian w Europie i na świecie","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Leśmian w Europie i na świecie","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.3132","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
The article concerns Paul Valéry’s sonet The Bee, a fragment of Rainer Maria Rilke’s
letter to Witold Hulewicz, Boleslaw Lesmian’s poem The Bees and a fragment of Czeslaw
Milosz’s poem Orpheus and Eurydice. The analysis of the semantic connotations and
symbolic meanings of the bee, which appears in these texts, shows them as elements
of a larger ontological project: an attempt to answer the question of the relation between
being and non-being. In essence, this project denies the division into being and non-
-being, proposing the concept of a greater whole instead the entrenched opposition.