Community-creating poetry. On Ballady rzeszowskie by Miron Bialoszewski

Abstract

The text attempts to interpret three of Miron Bialoszewski’s poems from the series Ballady rzeszowskie [the Ballads of Rzeszów] (published in 1956) in the context of reflections on the formation of communities. For the proposed readings of “Stara pieśń na Binnarową” [An Old Song on Binnarowa], “Średniowieczny gobelin o Bieczu” [A Medieval Tapestry on Biecz] and “Ballada krośnieńska” [A Krosno Ballad], the concepts of Benedict Anderson and Lawrence Venuti are important, from the perspective of which the author of this paper analyses selected aspects of communityforming processes, inscribed in the interpreted works.