Franciszek Smuglewicz Hall of Vilnius University Library displays an exhibition titled “On Two Baroque Stars, or Sarbievius and Artistic Poetry”. The exhibition not only tells the visitor about significant documents related to the life and literary heritage of the great poet Matthias Casimir Sarbievius, but also invites the visitor to admire Baroque’s poesis artificiosa – pattern poems that remind of riddles or rebuses, composed in such a way as to form a graphic image.
Today, we invite you to explore thoroughly this type of poetry through the digital story “Five poems in shapes”. The story based on the physical exhibition will take you into the picturesque world of pattern poetry and will show its specificity and refinement. Speaking in the form of a rose, a pyramid, or other object, the poems will inevitably draw you into a fun game, where you will decode what is encoded in the different shapes, try to solve the riddles of the texts, and wander through the maze of letters.
By clicking on this link, you will enter this exciting story.
For the first part of the story about Matthias Casimir Sarbievius, click here.
For more Vilnius University Library digital stories, click here.