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Summary: Relationship to Today's Problems
Review: "Hatred is a poem that I believe is a statement the world is making today, whether we like what it is saying or not. As our world is coming closer to a war, we are forced to think about hatred everyday and what it actually means. "Let's Face it: It knows how to make beauty. The splendid fire-glow in midnight skies. Magnificent bursting bombs in rosey dawns." Is hatred as beautiful as this passage from her poem reads? Isn't there another way to make beauty than to use hate? Szymborska is a poet who does not hide behind her writings. She expresses herself and thoughts and is not afraid to do so. This certain poem of hate could be a bit risky to write, but it actually tells the truth. Hate is everywhere, even on the sports fields, with the fans and athletes themselves. This book, Poems New and Collected, has many great themes such as love, war, perspective and existence. Everyone may not agree with her writings, but I am sure some sort of connection will be made. I know I felt a connection to her while reading her poems.
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Summary: Relationship to Today's Problems
Review: "Hatred is a poem that I believe is a statement the world is making today, whether we like what it is saying or not. As our world is coming closer to a war, we are forced to think about hatred everyday and what it actually means. "Let's Face it: It knows how to make beauty. The splendid fire-glow in midnight skies. Magnificent bursting bombs in rosey dawns." Is hatred as beautiful as this passage from her poem reads? Isn't there another way to make beauty than to use hate? Szymborska is a poet who does not hide behind her writings. She expresses herself and thoughts and is not afraid to do so. This certain poem of hate could be a bit risky to write, but it actually tells the truth. Hate is everywhere, even on the sports fields, with the fans and athletes themselves. This book, Poems New and Collected, has many great themes such as love, war, perspective and existence. Everyone may not agree with her writings, but I am sure some sort of connection will be made. I know I felt a connection to her while reading her poems.
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Summary: clear
Review: Each of these poems is totally exactly within its own language. Szymborska is a very clear-cut poet -- straightforward, simple. Her quiet humor is exemplified in the beginning of her Nobel acceotance speech. "They say that the first sentence of any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me." After that, for the rest of this book, her poems are very concise & wonderfully thoughtful. Lucid. This is welcoming poetry.
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Summary: clear
Review: Each of these poems is totally exactly within its own language. Szymborska is a very clear-cut poet -- straightforward, simple. Her quiet humor is exemplified in the beginning of her Nobel acceotance speech. "They say that the first sentence of any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me." After that, for the rest of this book, her poems are very concise & wonderfully thoughtful. Lucid. This is welcoming poetry.
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Summary: best poet
Review: In the book New and COlleceted by Szymborska there are many poems to which I can relate to, or that make statements about what the world is like today. One poem that I think makes a statement about the world today is "Hatered". I think that "Hatered" makes a statement about the world today because for one we are closer to war and there are still many forms of violence going on around the world today. I feel that if there was no violence the world would be a better place, but because of the violence there is hate in the world.
Lastly, I feel that Szymborska is not an advocate for violence, and that she, like most of us wants to do what she can do in order to prevent any form of violence from happening- she wants peace like most Americans do, and in times like we are going throguh now peace is something we strive for and are working on achieving.
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Summary: Best female Polish poet of the 20th century
Review: Szymborska has long been a favorite of mine. I have compared many different English translations of her poetry. The translators of this volume are by far the best. They make Szymborksa's poetry flow effortlessly, seamlessly. This is a a rare and wonderful poetry book.
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Summary: talented poet
Review: Szymborska is a talented poet. She conveys a dark view of humanity through her poetry. In her poem "Hatred" Szymborska explores the human emotion of hate. She describes it as efficient; in no way blind or patient. Humanity's hate is immortal and "unflinching." Another example of Szymborska's dark view of humanity is expressed in "Advertisement." Advertisements are manmade; they take over people and make them promises. She goes as far as to calling them the devil asking for your soul.
Szymborka's poems are written in simple language so anyone can understand them. She does not make them unduly complex. Her writing makes one think and does not take life lightly.
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Summary: talented poet
Review: Szymborska is a talented poet. She conveys a dark view of humanity through her poetry. In her poem "Hatred" Szymborska explores the human emotion of hate. She describes it as efficient; in no way blind or patient. Humanity's hate is immortal and "unflinching." Another example of Szymborska's dark view of humanity is expressed in "Advertisement." Advertisements are manmade; they take over people and make them promises. She goes as far as to calling them the devil asking for your soul.
Szymborka's poems are written in simple language so anyone can understand them. She does not make them unduly complex. Her writing makes one think and does not take life lightly.
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Summary: Finally - A Book Worth Reading
Review: Szymborska's book, "Poems New and Collected" rattles the mind's realm of reality, spirituality, and unknown humanity. A predominate pattern of poisioning passages of darkness lead to peepholes to positive. She delivers a inspiringly intelligent, thought inciting pile of poems. She displays a great genius with the poem, "Four A.M." as it generates ideas on aspects glomming in the back of all creatures nonexistent or existing minds. She touches audiences with poems like "Parable" which toss out open ended questions about our own lives. Szymborska almost sees humans with an open hand hovering over the world's weather of events brought on by unnamed named fates. Szymborska's book is a sail set adventure on the ying and yang yacht of pondering poetry.
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Summary: Wonderful, even in translation
Review: The worst thing my Polish grandparents did was discourage their children from speaking Polish. Now, two generations removed from the language, I can only wonder at what Ms. Szymborska's astonishing work sounds like in her native tounge. The translators have done an admirable job of establishing a gentle sense of humor, a strong and steady voice in the English versions of these poems, which makes me long all the more to be able to read them in their original Polish. Ms. Szymborska has that wonderful eastern European ability to show us that everything matters -- our words, our thoughts, our ancestors, our own mortality make us who we are, and who we are exists in an eternal Now. "Life, however long, is always short," she writes, "too short for anything to be added." Perhaps the most moving of these works is "In Broad Daylight," a fantastic portrait of the poet Krzysztof Baczynski, killed at age 23 during the Warsaw Uprising, as an old man, vacationing in the mountains, sipping soup, readng the paper. Ms. Szymborska shows us how these simple acts, what she calls elsewhere "commonplace miracles," are precious. We who live have an obligation to see the miracle in our very exisitence, to savor and to succor life. Szymborska deserves to be widely read. This volume is highly recommended.
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