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Collections of her poems that have been translated into English include People on a Bridge (1990), View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems (1995), Miracle Fair (2001), and Monologue of a Dog (2005). Readers of Szymborska’s poetry have often noted its wit, irony, and deceptive simplicity.
- The End and The Beginning
those who know little. And less than little. And finally as...
- Dreams
By Wisława Szymborska. Translated from the Polish by Clare...
- The End and The Beginning
- Some Like Poetry
- Possibilities
- The End and The Beginning
- On Death, Without Exaggeration
- Nothing Twice
- The Joy of Writing
- True Love
- Utopia
- Love at First Sight
- The Three Oddest Words
This is perhaps the best-known poem of Wislawa Szymborska. The poem begins in an engaging, straightforward fashion: The opening lines humorously reveal the growing distaste for poetry among modern readers. However, in the end, Szymborska asks what poetry really is. Whether she has got the answer, or is it something tricky to answer? To find the ans...
Indeed, this poem is full of different possibilities of meanings and interpretations. What is more interesting to note about this poem is the structure of lines. Each one begins with the word “I prefer”, strongly preferring the poet’s individualism to conventionalism. This piece can be read as a poetic autobiography that includes the likes and disl...
“The End and the Beginning” is one of the best-known poems of Wislawa Szymborska. This piece is set at the end of the Great Wars. Szymborska depicts how the world was devastated by the war. Things were cleaned up and renewed for preparing the space free from the trauma of war. However, the impact it had on the hearts would still be there, no matter...
“On Death, without Exaggeration” appears among the top 5 poems of Szymborska published by the Nobel Prize Committee. Though this piece taps on a somber and severe topic, death, it does reveal the poet’s optimism. None can prove her wrong when she says, Throughout this piece, the poet firmly says that life goes on even though the tragic wars have tr...
This piece is one of the well-known poems of Szymborska. It was set to music and performed in 1965. In 1994, rock singer Kora’s cover of the poem was a hit. This poem is about the transience of moments and the freshness of the new. According to the poet, nothing in life happens twice. Hence, to unravel to the fullness of life, one has to wait, obse...
This is one of the best-known poems ever written on the topic of writing. It explores what it feels to a poet while she writes down her thoughts. For Szymborska, it is like a kind of hunting for the right choice of words or ideas, or sometimes it feels like a carefree wandering into the woods. How does the poet feel, especially while writing? We ca...
It is an ironic piece concerning true love. In this poem, Szymborska talks about how people think when they find a couplet genuinely devoted to each other. Being a rare scene to behold in this modern, selfish world, it seems odd and morally deceptive to them. Hence, their inability to understand their emotions somehow helps the lovers to live and d...
It is one of the best poems of Wislawa Szymborska. This piece is about a utopian place solely made from the poet’s imagination. It is the place where the poet often visits, probably her mind?
It is one of the best-loved poems by Szymborska and was used in a number of films. The most memorable lines from this poem are: Like the poem “Possibilities”, this piece also posits a number of ways that two souls can meet and be in love. There is no order or symmetry in the things that happen beforehand. Somehow the poet finds beauty in this uncer...
“The Three Oddest Words” is a short, six-line poem, but it is comprehensive in its range. This poem centers on three specific words, “Future”, “Silence”, and “Nothing”. In each couplet, the poet presents an interesting idea. For example, in the first two lines, she humorously says that when she utters the word “Future”, the first syllable already g...
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Love at First Sight. Wislawa Szymborska. 1923 –. 2012. They’re both convincedthat a sudden passion joined them.Such certainty is beautiful,but uncertainty is more beautiful still. Since they’d never met before, they’re surethat there’d been nothing between them.But what’s the word from the streets, staircases, hallways—perhaps ...
- Utopia. Island where all becomes clear. Solid ground beneath your feet. The only roads are those that offer access. Bushes bend beneath the weight of proofs.
- On Death, without Exaggeration. It can’t take a joke, find a star, make a bridge. It knows nothing about weaving, mining, farming, building ships, or baking cakes.
- The Three Oddest Words. When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. When I pronounce the word Nothing,
- Possibilities. I prefer movies. I prefer cats. I prefer the oaks along the Warta. I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky. I prefer myself liking people. to myself loving mankind.
1923 –. 2012. Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is. that we arrive here improvised. and leave without the chance to practice. Even if there is no one dumber, if you're the planet's biggest dunce, you can't repeat the class in summer: this course is only offered once. No day copies yesterday,
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