Folk Vocal Music as an Inspiration for 20th-Century Polish Verse

Elements of folk vocal music can be observed in 20th-century Polish poetry, both in the original forms and in that mediated through imitation. A special role is played by the imitation of versification, whose main purpose is a reference to the melic prototype of folk poetry. An analysis of this imitation is the main topic of the paper. The author discusses the issue based on examples, namely poems by Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Jan Kasprowicz, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Józef Czechowicz, Jerzy Liebert and Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki.