Od włodarza do uciekiniera – konstruowana w relacji z miastem tożsamość poetycka Marcina Świetlickiego i jej przemiany .......... 129

FROM STEWARD TO FUGITIVE – THE CITY AND MARCIN ŚWIETLICKI’S POETIC IDENTITY‘S CHANGES

An analysis of recorded and versed versions of Opluty and its thematic continu-ations: a poem and two songs titled Gotham. These pieces pan out into a cycle about relations between Marcin Świetlicki’s lyrical I and the city. Its elements show an evolution of relations: dynamics of the city and change of the hero’s status – from an anticipated ruler and the people’s messiah he becomes an outcast and afugitive. His escape is an internal emigration, which leads to Świetlicki’s typical egotism. The cycle is created as a biblical salvation scheme, relations between the hero and the city resemble complicated relations between God and humanity.