Encounter We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn. A red wing rose in the darkness. And suddenly a hare ran across the road. One of us pointed to it with his hand. That was long ago…. Read More ›
Czesław Miłosz themes
Analysis of Czesław Miłosz’s Dedication
“You whom I could not save,” Czesław Miłosz implores, “Listen to me” (ll. 1–2). In classical tradition, a dedication is a formal act, a delineation of space in response to loss. The poet offers up Warsaw to the memory of… Read More ›
Analysis of Czesław Miłosz’s Child of Europe
When accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, Czesław Miłosz said, “I am a child of Europe, as the title of one of my poems admits, but that is a bitter, sarcastic admission.” Miłosz composed Child of Europe during… Read More ›
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