Czesław Miłosz

Czesław Miłosz (Born in 1911 year, died 14 August 2004 in Krakow) He was the greatest, Next to Tadeusz Różewicz, contemporary Polish poet. He published the first two volumes of poems in the interwar period, They were a testimony of a conviction of the crisis embracing Europe, a sense of threat to European culture, civilization, the world of traditional values. These songs combined a romantic visuality with the raw rules of classical discipline.

The war was a great shock for Miłosz (mainly moral), The apocalyptic vision from the interwar works came true, They were replaced by reality. War, later Stalinism, She also brought a number of questions about the nature and meaning of history in Czesław Miłosz's work, history, There was a belief, that it is the duty of poetry to make a moral judgment of the world and seek lasting ethical values ​​in it. Because Miłosz is primarily a poet of culture, they are looking for these permanent points mainly in its areas – in antiquity, Bible, individually read romantic tradition, classicism.

Moral issues remain in the center of interest of the poet, Human value systems. It is a moralistic creativity, interested in basic issues of guilt and punishment, truth and lies, dignity and degradation, fall. Miłosz does not create easy generalizations, patterns of conduct. He often adopts the so -called Manichean attitude, treated evil as a kind of good complement. Not woe to the fall of the modern world, progressive human degradation as a person. It always remains a poet of hope, He keeps faith in humanity, her ability to leave the next crises. Without neglecting the memory of this, what was bad in the past (np. About the experience of the last World War).