Zoomorphic code in the poetry of Kazimierz Święgocki

Abstract

The authors of the article consider the work of the famous Polish poet of the middle generation, Doctor
of Philosophy Kazimierz Svvegotsky on a wide cultural and historic-literary background. The stability of individual
symbols and signs in the Eastern Slavic literature is traced by them from the era of Ivan the Terrible to the beginning
of the 21-st century. The authors disclose hidden meanings and demonstrate the origins of images, to which the Polish
poet has a special preference in his philosophical lyrics. Considering chronologically used images of animals, birds
and insects in the artistic fabric of works, the authors note the following trends: with the years they become less and
less. The poet was born in the countryside, studied and taught in the city, for many years the city life inevitably gradually alienated the living nature from the soul and heart of an impressionable creative person, which is immediately
reflected in his work. The authors believe that in modern literature there is an active process that repeats the situation
of the Silver Age: the active actualization of zoomorphic code in the texts of contemporary authors and in literary life.