Metafory poetyckie jako przejaw literackości w tekstach zespołu punkrockowego Włochaty

Abstrakt

A problem of literarity of rock songs is a concern of researchers from various disciplines (e.g. linguistics, literary studies, sociology, history, study of culture) and still they are unable to solve it. Some scholars assume programmed illiterarity of such works and point at their vulgarity, kinship with oral culture and primarily, total dependence on music; others argue that lyrics of rock songs abound in stylistic means, they have rhymes, strophic construction and a great number of intertextual references, and lastly — they are issued in a form of poetic volumes. The undefined status of literatity is amplified by the fact, that rock song is a certain enteriety which, contrary to poems, is a multi-code message including a musical-sound, verbal-lyrical, iconical-cover and iconical-scenic code. It is particularily difficult to regard punkrock lyrics as literary due to their vulgarity, rebelliousness and catchphrases with strong agitative, propagative, and ideological message. Such shape of lyrics is a result of strictly defined worldwiev of the punk subculture, which entails hostility towards politics, the Police, school, the Church, family, work, army and other institutions supervised by the State. ‘An outfit (bovver boots, leather jacket, mohawk hairstyle) is also a specific form of communication in the punk movement. However, the objective of this article was to argue that punkrock lyrics can be analysed according to the rules of traditional stylistics and that they contain a lot of metaphors which, despite their subjection to ideology, situate those lyrics near to the poetry.