"IN THE FLOOD OF TIMES." HISTORY AND TIME IN POLISH EXPRESSIONIST POETRY

The theme of the article are expressionist images, and time and history conceptualizations found in the poems produced in the Poznan group of "Spring" ("Zdroj") by Stanislaw Kubicki, Emil Zegadlowicz, Adam Bederski, Witold Hulewicz, and in the articles published in this periodical. The topics in question allows to point at the most vital disparities between Polish and German expressionisin made explainable by the diffrent political situation of the countries by the end and after World War I. Romantic-like understanding of historical process - particularly vital and suggestive part of romantic world-view to which "Spring" members referred became, as a matter of fact, a background for expressionist ideas, evolving from pre-modernistic conceptions to modem ones, akin to that of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche.