Czeslaw Milosz was a Polish American poet, translator, and diplomat. Today he is considered one of the most important poets of the 20th century. In 1980, he won the Noble Prize in Literature. Throughout his work, he explores themes like faith in history, inspired by his survival of the German occupation of Warsaw during World War II.
‘A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto’ by Czeslaw Milosz presents a description of the Warsaw Ghetto from the eyes of a “poor Christian.”
Bees build around red liver,
Ants build around black bone.
It has begun: the tearing, the trampling on silks,
It has begun: the breaking of glass, wood, copper, nickel, silver, foam
‘A Song on the End of the World’ by Czeslaw Milosz is an impactful poem that takes a paradoxical view of the apocalypse as a means of underscoring the surreality of facing cataclysm.
On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Happy porpoises jump in the sea,
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