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Synopsis
(UN)REPEATABLE AND UNNAMED TIME IN THE POETRY OF ANNA FRAJLICH
The essay takes as its focus different dimensions and meanings of time – a recurrent and one of the most important themes in Anna Frajlich’s lyrics and prose work. The poet juxtaposes in her poetry and in the collection of her short stories entitled “A Laboratory” (Laboratorium), the ‘inner time’ – the one that originates in her still vivid memories, with the ‘clock time’. Past experiences and images perfectly coexist in this poetry with its author’s acute sense of time happening and passing by now. The speaker, in the case of Frajlich’s poetic account the author herself, is shown in this essay as a relentless traveler who with the help of her memory revives the sphere of the past time, and yet always shifts herself back to the present reality of her everyday routine and life in New York. This approach corresponds with Henri Bergson’s philosophy of time which reverberates in many of Frajlich’s poems, and is regarded in this essay as one of the possible perspectives from which her poetry may by interpreted.
