"Nasza zabawa skończona": o pożegnalnym tomiku poetyckim Zbigniewa Herberta z perspektywy szekspirowskiej "Burzy"

Abstract

This article is the continuation the studies of presence of Shakespearean motifs int the Zbigniew Herberts poetry, that was published in the latest edition of „Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich”. In this part the author investigates the references to Shakespeares drama to shows both the aesthetic and existential "ideas of tempestes”, which had been hidden in the last volume of Herbert's poetry entitled The Epilogue of the Tempest. Careful reading of the whole collection brings a recognision of the intertextual allusions to Shakespeare's The. Tempset, and particulary to Prosperos Epilogue. Herbert had used Shakespeare's idea to built his own project of life and his own vision of art. The Epilogue oj the Tempest is a collection more personal than any other before. Seemengly Herbert give the autobiographicall confessions of pain oi dying and of old ages difficulties. Seemingly he scene the "naked nature”. But really he had screened that all with aid of the Shakespearen mask, he had created the theatricall illusion. Herbert's Speaker behaves like the dramaturg and the director in "the theatre of world” and he plays Prospero's role. In last volume we can find also a new shape of Arcadia - "Arcadia after the tempest”. To recognize the image oi this "riped Arcadia”, to understand the latest Herbert's poetry, we must read them alongside the Shakespeare' art.