NOTES TO THE „SALVE REGINA” BY JAN KASPROWICZ

Abstract

I present here two important remarks on the subject of the work by Salve Regina, not yet taken up in Kasprowiczology, discussing two issues linking this hymn by Kasprowicz with the Roman liturgy and rituals. The thematic and structural threads that I read in this work, beyond any doubt, have a liturgical and ritual origin. Apparently, the relationship between this poet’s hymn and the religious work of the same title is expressed in terms of time. As in the mass liturgy and funeral liturgy, but also in monastic piety and pia exercitia, this hymn is associated with an extreme experience. Sung or recited at the end of the mass, at the end of the funeral, at the end of the day – it is also closely related to the end of human life in this piece by Kasprowicz. That is why we are dealing here with a kind of liturgical anaclesis, and above all an anamnesis of biblical events with their liturgical context oriented soteriologically.