Poetry for Students, Volume 29

the truth of reason, underscoring the struggle the poet has been facing in different forms through- out the course of the poem, ...

Themes Alienation The theme of alienation is a pervasive one in ‘‘From the Rising of the Sun,’’ and Milosz explores it in all it ...

forgiven for his sins. In the third section of the poem, Milosz makes reference again to the apoc- alypse, commenting on what mi ...

possessed by imperialist Russia and later, from 1920 through 1938, by Poland. It was during these years that Milosz attended sec ...

of government. Milosz himself, as evidenced by his writings in such works as The Captive Mind, viewed Communism as a dehumanizin ...

cultures. ‘‘Polyphony’’ is a ‘‘creative principle’’ for Milosz, Mozejko contends, and it is ‘‘one of the foremost characteristic ...

Madonna and child carved out of wood), rather than faith itself. This section emphasizes the undulations of hope and despair thr ...

the poet’s efforts to connect with faith is some- how negated. The poet’s longing for his native Lithuania, for a sense of home ...

Writing of his own translations of Robinson Jeffers in an essay collected in the new volume, Beginning with My Streets, Milosz c ...

Here as elsewhere in Milosz’s essays, he scruti- nizes himself: ‘‘It is easy to understand the anger of the oppressed, the anger ...

world where existentialism has long prompted many of his contemporaries to discount the eth- ical duality of good and evil altog ...

substitute for religion, which it was, for several decades of the century. ‘‘It is very, very hard to predict,’’ he says when I ...

Czaykowski, Bogdan, ‘‘Czeslaw Milosz,’’ inDictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 215,Twentieth-Century Eastern European Writers, ...

Heart’s Needle When it was published in 1959, in a poetry collec- tion of the same name, W. D. Snodgrass’s poem ‘‘Heart’s Needle ...

he enrolled in Geneva College, now called Hobert College, in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. His studies there were interrupted when ...

who was driven insane by a curse that was placed on him by a bishop he had attacked. In the section of the story that Snodgrass ...

Section 4 The fourth section of this poem takes place after the father has already moved out of the house. It starts with a ment ...

during her visit; she quits eating, and the father leaves her untouched plate in her room until she will eat it. When she leaves ...

For most of the poem, the speaker and his daughter maintain a solid relationship, given the circumstances. He recalls pleasant a ...

and third lines rhyming. The second section has anabacbcpattern, as line 1 rhymes with line 3, line 2 with line 5, and line 4 wi ...