Alegoryzacje „dnia Gniewu”. O utworach Jana Kasprowicza pisanych „ginącemu światu”

The text is an attempt to indicate the common places in the works published by Kasprowicz as volume VI of his Dzieła poetyckie [Poetic Works]. In the field of research interest, the basic human experiences are – according to Kasprowicz – pain, associated fear and literary strategies for taming them. The cycles Ginącemu światu [To the Dying World] and Salve Regina, as well as the poems from the volume O bohaterskim koniu i walącym się domu [Of the Heroic Horse and the Wrecking House] are read in the perspective of a modern allegory. Detailed interpretations use the concepts of classical psychoanalysis (such as fetish, symptoms, denial). The source of inspiration also comes from Walter Benjamin’s proposed description of the disappearance of experience and the disintegration of significant structures – which can be recognised as phenomena characteristic of modernity.