Poems about conversations that did not take place

Abstract

The text entitled: “Poems about conversations that did not take place” is an interpretation of two pieces of poetry by Marcin Świetlicki and Ewa Lipska: Talking (at
the end of the century) and When we started to talk. Both works deal, in different ways, with the subject of interpersonal communication, in which language and spoken word connect
people. Both Ewa Lipska and Marcin Świetlicki see the loss of, not only conversation skills, but social and individual consent to mutual understanding and dialogue. People,
once close, become strangers because they have different views and are entangled in the difficult modern times. In individual contacts, they close themselves in their own circles,
they do not try to be open to meeting others.