Published: 2022-05-10

"In the Heart of Destruction”. Miłosz and the recovery of poetry as mythopoiesis

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Section: Articles and Studies
https://doi.org/10.31261/FLPI.2022.04.09

Abstract

Starting with an analysis of two works by Czesław Miłosz, namely “Lullaby” (1933/1934) and “The World. A Naive Poem” (1943), the essay aims at examining the process of the author’s rediscovery of the mythopoetic function of lyric poetry during World War II. Characterized by the use of a child’s perspective and imagination, marked
more or less clearly by the experience of war catastrophe – both compositions are constructed by antithesis, and poetically founded on different forms of imagination in the service of an axiology which attests a radical transformation of the poetic quest.

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Quondamatteo, S. (2022). "In the Heart of Destruction”. Miłosz and the recovery of poetry as mythopoiesis. Fabrica Litterarum Polono-Italica, (4), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.31261/FLPI.2022.04.09

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eISSN: 2658-185X
Ikona DOI 10.31261/FLPI

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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