„I bloom with my soul, with my soul”... Around the creative statements of young people about their place of residence and their own life, inspired by the literary out put of Zosia Smreczyńska and Władysław Orkan

Abstract

This publication is presented as part of the broadly understood didactics of the Polish language, in particular regional education seen from a modern perspective. A detailed consideration is devoted to aproposal to use geopoetic tools, including the topographic Outlook and the educational possibilities of literary texts and Young people’s creative endeavours, by showing their place of residence as constantly opening up New topographies, confirming or deconstructing the previous ones. The author treats the Podgórze region as a bearer of anthropological content, a link between various ways of recording experiences related to it. The research issues focus on the Gorce Mountains seen from the perspective of: 1) Władysław Orkan’s statements about mountains and their values; 2) the works of Zosia Smreczyńska intertwined with her experience of her native environment; c) poetry submitted by Young people participating in the Zosia Smreczyńska VIII County Poetry Competition and their various ties with their home towns.