Apis mellifera (Rilke, Leśmian, Valéry, Miłosz)
Tomasz Wójcik (University of Warsaw)
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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.
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