My Blue World: Ambivalence of the Meaning of the Colour Blue in Adolescent Creative Writing – between Aesthetic and Efferent Reading

Abstract

The article analyzes students’ statements (creative writing) on Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer’s poem In the Bay of Naples and the blue colour associated with the interpretation of this work (teenagers, “going beyond” the philological analysis and interpretation of the text, write an essay “My blue world”). The pupils’ reception of Przerwa-Tetmajer’s poetic work and the children’s essays making creative use of fantasy worlds, filtered through their individual reception of the “blue world” from the poem by the Young Poland poet, show the pupils’ reading engagement and draw attention to the aesthetic perspective of perception. They also testify to the fact that imaginary worlds and fantasy as a literary convention (in the case of teenagers’ essays) allow for the use of imagination and emotions, for “going beyond the text”, for a kind of escapism on the part of the reader/viewer, but also for the reflection of teenagers’ wishes, dreams and desires, and for reaching deeper meanings of the work analyzed in class.