Odejmowanie istnienia, czyli Przeczucia eschatologiczne Pana Cogito

Abstrakt

The author presents a precise analysis of the poem Przeczucia eschatologiczne Pana Cogito, placing this work in the context of Herbert's other poems „for the passing away”. The clash of the wealth of life with the depersonalising emptiness of the next world after death is in fact – as is revealed by the author – a conflict of languages that is inherent in the structure of the poem: of the colloquial private Polish and the impersonal office style. The hypothetical and private image of the next world proves to be an element of a peculiar „struggle” for an individual dimension of existence going on in Herbert's poetry; it is another – especially significant – act of opposition to the „systems” putting abstract ideas above man.