Literary song and generation hymns of the second half of the 20th century at Polish language classes in the secondary school. Aesthetics – topics – values

Abstract

The article concerns the post-war literary song in Polish language education in secondary schools, i.e. the place of authors and texts representing poetic songs, poems set to music, author’s song and the opinion of a generation at the Polish language classes. Besides such authors as Ewa Demarczyk, Agnieszka Osiecka, Wojciech Młynarski, Jacek Kaczmarski (perceived not through the prism of intertextual measures: painting or biblical one, but as a bard of “Solidarity”, i.e. the author of “The Walls”), Grzegorz Ciechowski’s work ‘Do not ask about Poland ‘ was considered. On the example of the poems by Kamil Baczyński which were sung by Demarczyk, texts written by Kaczmarski and Ciechowski, they were discussed the artistry, the topics and evaluation of poetic song from the perspective of educational axiology.