Her poems make use of literary devices such as paradox and irony to explore the human condition. Family Life She divorced Adam Wlodek in 1954 after six years of marriage. Associated With She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature one year after Seamus Heaney won the award in 1995. Popu...
There are so many things I like about this poem! Commonplace miracle: that so many commonplace miracles happen. That realization, when it stops being simply a nice idea and truly takes hold of the awareness, when that happens, the world finally comes alive to us. Or perhaps we come alive...
Two poems written after the war that concern the subject are set within nightmares. "Jeszcze" (Still), drawing on an earlier poem, "Transport zydów" (The Transport of Jews), depicts the plight of Jews aboard a train headed for the death camps. The biographically grounded "Sen" (Dream)...
and refuses to give readings of her poems. Her main contact with the outside world is through a longtime newspaper column, “Non-Compulsory Reading.” But, last week, in the sanctity of this favorite creative retreat, she spoke openly and endearingly about her life’s work and the burden o...
but his lyrical works proved to be superior to anything written before him. His crowning achievement, a Polish work that equals the great poems of western Europe, wasTreny(1580;Laments). Inspired by despair after the death of his three-year-old daughter, it ends on a note of reconciliation...