A Treatise on Poetry
A Treatise on Poetry(Traktat poetycki, 1957)—written ten years afterA Treatise on Morals—reflects Miłosz’s search for a classical “dry form,” capable of bearing the burden of a “struggle whose stakes are life or death.”¹ Though they are both treatises, A Treatise on Poetry is more hybridized than it...
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| Zusammenfassung: | A Treatise on Poetry(Traktat poetycki, 1957)—written ten years afterA Treatise on Morals—reflects Miłosz’s search for a classical “dry form,” capable of bearing the burden of a “struggle whose stakes are life or death.”¹ Though they are both treatises, A Treatise on Poetry is more hybridized than its predecessor. It contains various autonomous segments, including“O City, O Society, O Capital,”the “Song of the Rose,” and “Ode to October.” Its stanza structure and prosody is more diverse. Characteristically, the poem includes no clearly defined “you” to be taught by an “ironic preceptor,” as in A Treatise |
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