La poesia animalista, antispecista ed ecologista di Wislawa Szymborska (WISŁAWA SZYMBORSKA’S ANIMALIST, ANTI-SPECIESIST AND ECOLOGIST POETRY)

Animals, plants and nature in general have been the protagonists of Szymborska’s verses since her first collections. This presence sometimes leads to an identification of these subjects with human beings; other times, the human being is even modified in its appearance by the insertion of plant or animal elements. The attention that comes from this is of an animalist and anti-speciesist nature; the responsibility of man, in the author’s denunciation, always remains central. Szymborska works on language, in particular on some idioms linked to animals, to highlight how language contributes to the persistence of a hierarchical differentiation between species.