View with a Grain of Sand (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wisława Szymborska
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Death or dying, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Poland or Polish people, Time, Utopias, Sand or sand dunes, Mind and body
The Poem
“View with a Grain of Sand” is a poem of thirty-seven lines grouped into seven stanzas that range from four to seven lines each. In both Polish and English, the poem exhibits occasional irregular rhymes, although these are not the same lines in both versions. (For example, the fourth stanza rhymes the second and fourth lines in Polish and the first and second line in English.) Like much of Wisława Szymborska’s poetry, the language in “View with a Grain of Sand” sounds like everyday conversation, differing from prose or ordinary speech only in very subtle...
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