Lustrzane konfrontacje Pana Cogito

The aim of the paper is to analyze the series of poems about Mr. Cogito and investigate the motifs of mirror and mirror reflection, which are important for the construction of identity of the character created by Zbigniew Herbert. Apart from mirror-as-material-object, there is also mirror-as-metaphor, i.e. acts of self-reflection and self-observation. Yet there is another layer of mirrors there, the one located in “meta-text”, where Herbert joins inter-textual games and ironically approaches both his poetical oeuvre and that of his artistic “masters”.