TY - JOUR N2 - This article takes as its starting point the Greek term μεταξύ, a preposition meaning ‘between’, first turned into a noun in Plato’s Symposium, and in that substantivized form adapted for their own ends by a number of 20th-century philosophers, most notably by Simone Weil. In her Gravity and Grace (French: La Pesanteur et la grâce) she defines le metaxu as in-betweenness, a social and metaphysical category which embraces all that connects and divides (as, for example, a wall that both separates two prisoners and can be used by them to tap messages). In this article Weil’s concept of metaxu is applied to the language and then to various readings of two of Wisława Szymborska’s poems, ‘Funeral’ and ‘Elegiac Calculation’. Pragmalinguistics and semantics, too, play a role in the interpretation of these poems. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/113540/PDF/RL%203-19%206-KORWIN-PIOTROWSKA.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/113540 PY - 2019 IS - No 3 (354) EP - 344 DO - 10.24425/rl.2019.130047 KW - Contemporary Polish literature KW - Polish poetry KW - literature and philosophy KW - metaxy (τό μεταξύ) KW - Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) A1 - Korwin-Piotrowska, Dorota PB - Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka PB - Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki DA - 2019.12.10 T1 - Language as τό μεταξύ: The functioning of speech in Wisława Szymborska’s poems ‘Funeral’ and ‘Elegiac Calculation’ SP - 333 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/113540 T2 - Ruch Literacki ER -