Wojciech Plocharskis poetry is an admirable step to a new renaissance and a new type of aesthetic experience. His poems are cunningly worked out in patterns of large vision and flexibility of style. His Faster Than light And Other Bagatelles includes images and phrases which are epigrammatic and full of wit. For example:
Manipulation is Throwing titbits to imitators.
A big newspaper under a pup. (Fate of Garrulity)
I make bow to it
inclining my head to wrist-watch everyday. (Time Is My Deity)
After reading such lines:
Idle towns, where no other idea of life exists
except children and malicious confabulations on neighbours theme.
(Calmness Of Province)
we are reminded of T.S. Eliots famous line in The Waste Land What shall we ever do? Calmness of Province is full of horror since no idea of life is present and visible in the Idle towns which permit no escape. The towns today have turned into a nightmare, since they are burning in the fire of boredom and ennui. Even TV news edited by officials, these Adventures of officials fail to bring any respite or comfort to the postmodern society (Faces Of Boredom).
His another collection Million in My Pocket makes us aware of the arid and dry plane of modern civilization with ironic effect. Plocharski is satirizing the mar-mongers in Peaks of Caucasus: Three military helicoptersAfter almost two-hour flight land in hell. The dust is everywhere. Looking down we see \ we are in a different world. It is obvious that the poet is criticizing the anarchy and futility of contemporary world. The insistence throughout this poem is Plocharskis hatred towards war. The beautiful landscapes and divinely attractive hills and peaks of Caucasus will be inevitably left behind;
the next day hell
will move not distant Beslan and unchain
there
No doubt, Plocharskis chief merit lies in presenting a richly ironical and satirical record of the violently disordered contemporary world. But his satire, though full of exuberant poetic fervour, is gentle, and inflicts no wounds:
No wounds, no sadness,
A poem is able to love.
A poem is Able, Diplomatic Rebel On Creaky Bicycle
Life of idealists concentrates round authorities.
You only need to weaken these points.
Points of Terror, Faster Than Light And Other Bagatelles.
In fact, Faster Than Light and Other Bagatelles seems to clear away the ruins and rubbish of contemporary life in quest of a new and beautiful world. Plocharski criticizes envious sadism (There Is No Question), alarmingly superciliousorganization (Poor Quality And Disorder conspiracy), torturing people in gas chambers (Rightists Mossy Cheeks), political botchers bungling state projects (Disarming Pistol), weight of ayatollahs (But Restrainedly). But nowhere Plocharski hits an unfair blow. His wit, satire and mirth are gentle, not fierce or abusing.
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