| Author | Aneta Cielibała-Gil |
|---|---|
| Title | A Woman According to the Poetic Conception of Jan Darowski |
| Keywords | culture, woman, poetry, emigration, languages |
| Pages | 7-16 |
| Full text | |
| Volume | 29 |
Jan Darowski seldom mentioned the motif of women in his works. Despite the fact that his volume Niespodziewane żywoty, issued in Poets' and Painters' Press in 1990, was dedicated to his second wife, Basia, born Świderska, it includes no poems concerning females. To the poet, gender is a very important factor which differentiates social expectations related to playing specific parts. In the works of the London writer, there is the Polish mother; womanhood takes a shape of motherhood, taking care of home and family, being a perfect housewife.