My song (II)
W 1842 the year Norwid left Poland, Warsaw and finally settled in Paris. W 1854 year he went to America, looking for a job. My song (II) It was created there, in New York.
The first three stanzas of this poem begin with anaphore to his hometown, to Poland left somewhere far away. The anaphore is a phrase To the country. The poet's extremely strong emotional relationship with the homeland is immediately emphasized. At the end, where everyday bread is respected, where storks (symbolizing happiness and abundance) They can feel completely safe, where the old is carefully cared for, Christian tradition. The lyrical subject misses all this, Images of an abandoned country put him in a disariness. At the same time, they are images firmly embedded in folk symbolism, emotionally marked as well as common imaginations.
The second part of the poem is not so easy to interpret, unambiguous. First of all, she talks about the longing of a lyrical subject for something unspecified, vague, underpricted:
I will miss another thing,
Which I don't know anymore, where is the apartment,
Equally innocent…
I miss me, Ladies…
The stanzas end with a confession: I miss me, Lord... Longing for peace, internal order, longing for this, that in the midst of feelings, the longing characteristic of the emigrant distant from his homeland would not dominate. Regret, that you are not surrounded by honest people. Calling things by name, living in the world of simple, clear values. Their country, Poland, It is far away. They are completely indifferent to the poet, they are not going to hear his voice from emigration. It must be like that – he says the lyrical subject but he does not intend to forget his homeland in any case, her landscapes and moral principles taken from home, ethical, which allow you to call good or bad, without light.
chorus I miss me, Ladies… They finish ellipses. Can be judged, that they signal other planes of nostalgia, all -encompassing, the poet's metaphysical sadness. Idealizing writer, embellishing the lost country, longing for all this, what emigration deprived him, distance from the homeland, Convision by heart of the place of birth without the possibility of renewing its image.
The mood of longing, monotonous, The slow course of the poem allows you to compare Norwid's song with the already known hymn of Juliusz Słowacki. Songs, Although very different in artistic terms, Much connects: They were created away from the country, They talk about the feelings of emigrants, moods clearly similar in all Polish writers, who left the country after the November Uprising.