How good
The war was for the generation of peers of Tadeusz Różewicz such a great and tragic experience, that she forced them to verify all previous ideas about the world. Różewicz debuted immediately after the war, He is a representative of the so -called. Columbus generations, He was a soldier of the Home Army. And maybe in his case, perceived against the background of the entire generation, occupation, War and fascism played the most important role in shaping the poetic vision of the world. Forced the poet to search for basic values, Seemingly centuries ago specified in centuries, as if the world re -learning:
How well can I collect
berries in the forest
I thought
There is no forest and berries
Lyrical subject of this poem (speaking in the first person singular – Without the risk of making a mistake, we can identify him with the author) He survived the war in the biological sense. That's good, that life was saved, You should enjoy it, Millions of people did not have a moment of freedom. However, everything else was in ruins, broke up. When the room came, The time has come to slowly check if something survived among debris and damage, Difficult period of moving step by step, Among the simplest events, matters, images. After all, during the war catastrophe, everything was threatened:
How well I can lie down
in the shade of the tree
I thought the trees
They don't give a shadow anymore
The world must be created again (Then the human history will start for the second time), Because now it is only a disorder and a wasteland, He reached a "zero point". Someone again, Starting from scratch, must organize reality, restore the words and concepts of sense, restore man to distinguish between good and evil. Forest and berries are the same as before the war, The trees cast a similar shadow. However, the man himself changed basically, whose eyes we watch the world: has been marked by death, by evil, in fear. Not everyone will find the joy of the world, who left the war apocalypse. They certainly thought about him many times, They missed him. When the cannons stopped, The crematorian furnaces turned out to be, that there is no forest, berry, shadow, man was deprived of a heart. The war permanently mutilated the psyche, You will always have to live with her luggage. At the same time, this poem by Różewicz (this possibility is created by anaphors: How good and I thought) You can interpret differently: forest, There were no berries and shadow during the war, Now the world has returned with all its colors, charms. It should only be seen, reject, which is not that easy at all. Just like nothing is absolutely sure -so, that the room will prove to be something permanent.
How good This is a characteristic example of Tadeusz Różewicz's proper lyrics.
Free poem it is not subordinated to any verification system, Similarly rhythmic verses are not repeated in it, is built on the basis of a free arrangement of various verses, There are no standards for its shape. Today, this is the basic form of lyrical poetry, dating back to modernism, poetry J. Kasprowicz, S. Wyspiański. As part of this type, there is a huge variety of poem models.
The most important element of the structure of this poem is the versification structure itself, breakdown into individual verses disrupting the natural course of sentences.