The monograph brings interpretations of twelve poems by Norwid. These are twelve ,

works and attempts to measure the thought and intention of the poet. The number is not accidental. It contains many direct and secondary connotations and meanings: from fullness to effort and toil, not excluding the metaphorical nature of the famous twelve works. For the work covers, in a synthetic summary, the entire area of Norwid’s lyric poetry stretched across a timeline; from the earliest of his works the famous Pen, considered a kind of manifesto, to his last poem entitled Episode, written shortly before the creator's death. The choice of works was determined by many factors. From the aesthetic characteristics and qualities, through the subject matter, to the strategy of disciplinary needs (lack of interpretation of the poet's individual texts). The dissimilarity of the proposed exegetical approaches from previous proposals was also not without significance. The moment of emphasis on the new and original should be extended to all the interpretations collected in the volume. In doing so, it had two main motivations. The first was connected with a reaction to the hitherto lack of ideas and interest of philologists in a particular poem (this is the case of Rebels and the untitled piece beginning with the words: “Oh yes, everything...” or Song from Our Land). The second, built in the polemical mode, was a reaction to the effects of the previous ways of facing certain texts (this, in turn, is the case of Tenderness, “Second” Sphinx or Epos-our land).