“In the Heart of Destruction”. Miłosz and the recovery of poetry as mythopoiesis. Starting with an analysis of two works by Czesław Miłosz, namely “Lullaby” (1933/1934) and “The World. A Naive Poem” (1943), the essay aims at examining the process of the author’s rediscovery of the mythopoetic function of lyric poetry during World War II. Characterized by the use of a child’s perspective and imagination, marked more or less clearly by the experience of war catastrophe – both compositions are constructed by antithesis, and poetically founded on different forms of imagination in the service of an axiology which attests a radical transformation of poetic quest.
"Nel cuore della distruzione". Mi{\l}osz e il recupero della poesia come mitopoiesi
Sara Quondamatteo
2022
Abstract
“In the Heart of Destruction”. Miłosz and the recovery of poetry as mythopoiesis. Starting with an analysis of two works by Czesław Miłosz, namely “Lullaby” (1933/1934) and “The World. A Naive Poem” (1943), the essay aims at examining the process of the author’s rediscovery of the mythopoetic function of lyric poetry during World War II. Characterized by the use of a child’s perspective and imagination, marked more or less clearly by the experience of war catastrophe – both compositions are constructed by antithesis, and poetically founded on different forms of imagination in the service of an axiology which attests a radical transformation of poetic quest.
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