Poems by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems by Wislawa Szymborska

Love can also be a barely sustainable accommodation. Ultimately, love involves loss. "Parting with a View" depicts a widow who's learned that life and nature continue on despite her loss ("I realize my sorrow/won't halt the greenery"). Parting with a View is a powerful poem about resignation and acceptance. Szymborska regards Poland's twentieth-century history as an endless nightmare of carnage, hatred, and inhumanity to man. She writes movingly about the Holocaust." She sees her role as bearing witness to the terrible truths of individuals.

It is possible to speak of Szymborska as a metaphysical poet because ...