The Path of the Neophyte

In this article, I examine selected poetic works by Polish poet Tadeusz Różewicz, with special attention to how his poems have found their way into the digital reality of today's information society, which is slowly moving away from the reading of books. In certain of Różewicz's poems, I have noticed places where a strong condensation of meaning occurs that bears the hallmarks of gnomic poetry. Following on this, I propose inscribing short passages from Różewicz's poems in urban space as murals, following the model provided by similar displays of poetic texts on the walls of many cities. In the course of my discussion, I outline various aspects of such displays, including the issue of context, and offer the hypothesis that such projects can promote the poet's work as a tool for encouraging reading and as a new medium for expressing poetic meaning.