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The article explains how poetry reveals the widely accepted mechanism of creating a hierarchical relationship between children and animals. This mechanism is often reinforced in poems intended for children but unmasked in poetry supposedly intended for adults. I illustrate the phenomenon in question using poems by Jacek Podsiadło and Dariusz Suska.
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This page is a summary of: Children and Fish (Poems Read in Voices), July 2025, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004722019_005.
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