Life &Poetry Entropy | 01 Aug 2009
Wislawa Szymborska’s poetry’s need no introduction on my blog, considering this is my tenth post on her work. In the words of Stanislaw Barańczak: “Wit, wisdom and warmth are equally important ingredients in the mixture of qualities that makes her so unusual and every poem of hers so unforgettable.” Under a Certain Little Star My [...]
Poetry &Sprituality Entropy | 27 Apr 2009
Wislawa Szymborska‘s poetry speaks about enduring and irreversible coordinates of human fate— love, striving, fear of pain, hope, the fleeting nature of things… Sky.. We should have started from this: the sky. A window without a sill, frame, or pane. An opening and with nothing more, beyond it. I don’t have to wait for a [...]
My friend Nimesh suggested to post this Wisława Szymborska’s Poem as a rejoinder to post “On Angels” by Czeslaw Milosz. It seemed most of the readers did not inferred the poets’ metaphor appropriately. Please also read Michele’s reveling comment- “Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.” We knew the world [...]
Life &Poetry Entropy | 22 Feb 2009
Wislawa Szymborska is a philosophically inflected poet who investigates unanswerable questions with immense élan and delicacy. This particular poem has deeper meaning and inferences in philosophy, biology and psychology. Like all her poems, this one takes us to the edge of an abyss. The title “Autotomy” is biological term for the capacity of certain living [...]
Life &Poetry Entropy | 02 Jan 2009
Wish to begin the new year’s first post on a cynical note with a poem of Wislawa Szymborska, which expresses irony, bringing to light the fragments of human reality. Essentially this is also in response to my friend Michele’s post on New Year, reflecting her feeling of contradiction on being an optimist & a realist. [...]
Literature &Poetry Entropy | 23 Nov 2008
I’ve once again returned to Szymborska’s Poem. This is one of her signature poems where she playfully investigates the nature of the poetic imagination. It muses about the relationship between words & things, and illuminates the character of poetic making.. As such this my fifth post on her work.. Why does this written doe bound [...]