To Go to Lvov (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Adam Zagajewski
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Jews or Jewish life, Catholics or Catholic Church, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Poland or Polish people, Soviet Union or Soviets, Church or churches
The Poem
“To Go to Lvov” depicts an imaginary journey, a dream journey, to Lvov, the city of poet Adam Zagajewski’s birth. Lvov was in a district that was appropriated from Poland by the Soviet Union after World War II; in consequence, Zagajewski’s family moved into western Poland where the poet grew up. This poem thus involves looking backward into the lost world of childhood, but it implies that everyone possesses such a landscape that is simultaneously lost and always available in memory. The poem consists of eighty-three lines of free verse in one long stanza. The...
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