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‘Where Am I going? Towards the Sun’. The Myth of Travel in Edward Stachura’s Works
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The article describes the myth of travel in Edward Stachura’s literary output. The protagonist travels through space and, at the same time, takes the spiritual path to meet the Sacred and understand the essence of the world. The narrator literally and figuratively implements the motif of life – a journey. He does so according to the principle ‘everything is poetry’ and his history becomes a living metaphor, a parable about the search for a metaphysical sense. The real destination is not a specific place but the act of wandering, which is connected with the co-existence of a geographical specificity and fairy-tale indefiniteness. The speaker does not want to get to places that he mentions but he goes to ‘nowhere’, to the fairy-tale land of the Sun, situated ‘over the great water’.
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Edward Stachura, journey, Sun, myth, poetryDetails
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