Communicating Pain in Wartime: Poetry by Anna Akhmatova and Krzysztof Kamil Baczy?ski

Abstract

In her poetical discourse eminently dialogical, Anna Akhmatova announces the contemporary discussions about the possibilities of the representations of the tragic experience. In exacerbating the emotive function, they indeed put forward an interiorization of the traditional structure of the tragic drama and its transformation in an articulation of the double’s figure. The split of a reality experienced as too painful, which the human subjectivity tries to endow with characteristics of irreality, has as its consequence the elaboration of a dialogical unfolding. Some poems of the cycle Requiem, written in the years 30, announce the unfolding manifest in the poetic diction of other poets concerned with the need to find ways of representation of the experience of suffering, such as, for example, Krzysztof Kamil Baczy?ski. Due to the elaboration of the poetic diction attached to the formal exigencies that represents a play with pain, the experience of suffering becomes epistemologically relevant.