The analyse of paradox and oxymoron in poems of Janusz Stanislaw Pasierb in the prospect of „Poetics Limitation of Word" (comparative formulation against a background o f the examples from English metaphysical poetry)

Abstract

The article confronts the selected poems by Janusz Stanisław Pasierb with poetry of such great English metaphisical poets of the 17th century as: Richard Crashaw, Ben Jonson, George Herbert, Johne Donne from the point of view of applying paradox and oxymoron as a means of combining Infinity with finiteness. The author of the article tries to prove that paradox and oxymoron are the figures which verbalise contradictions eg. on different times levels, at contrastive ethical and cognitive values and formulate in the fullest way human hope in striving for the Truth.