Gajcy, Bachelard – idea domu onirycznego na przykładzie „Poematu letargicznego” i innych wierszy

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to try to answer the question of how the idea of a dreamy house came to its creative realization in the poetry of Tadeusz Gajcy. According to Gaston Bachelardʼs philosophical conception, the initial memory of family home, the nostalgic returns to the lost childhood land, is just a threshold leading to the identification of deeper meanings. The house of our longings transformed by the dreamdestroys the feeling of passing, and thus represents the specific embodiment of the idea of eternity. The French anthropologist introduced the notion of a dreamy house for the purposes of literary research, which evokes in the space of literary images the archetypal image of pra-haven hidden in the depths of existence. Discovered by the poet as the seat of the inner indwelling, it is often referred to by reality as a backdrop for dreams of infinity. What is worth emphasizing, in Gajcyʼs poetry the poetic imagery of the dreamy house as an absolute value, shaping and saving humanity is built upon the foundations of personal relationships.