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Wislawa Szymborska

Wislawa Szymborska. July 2, 1923- February 1, 2012 Born in Kornik (western Poland) Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996 Her poetry reflects on Man “as an individual and member of human society.”

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Wislawa Szymborska

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  1. Wislawa Szymborska • July 2, 1923- February 1, 2012 • Born in Kornik (western Poland) • Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996 • Her poetry reflects on Man “as an individual and member of human society.” • Her style is “marked by intellectual introspection, wit, & succinct and stylish choice of words.”

  2. Szymborska’s conventions • Allusion • Irony • Paradox • Personification • Synecdoche • Apostrophe • Anaphora • Rhyme • Form • Enjambment • Caesura • Chiasmus • Asyndeton/ polysyndeton • Use of “white space” • Extended metaphor

  3. Works • Calling Out to Yeti (1957) • Still • Salt (1962) • Clochard, Starvation Camp Near Jaslo, Rubens’ Women, Poetry Reading, The Tower of Babel, Synopsis • No End of Fun (1967) • Soliloquy for Cassandra & Written in a Hotel • A Large Number (1976) • Lot’s Wife, On the Banks of the Styx, Pi • The People on the Bridge (1986) • Hitler’s First Photograph & Into the Ark • Monologue of a Dog (2005) • Photograph from September 11

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