Szymborska frequently employs literary devices such as irony, paradox, contradiction, and understatement, to illuminate philosophical themes and obsessions. In Poland, her books reach sales rivaling prominent prose authors-although she once remarked in a poem entitled "Some like poetry" that no more than two out of a thousand people care for the art. She was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. So, I hope you get the picture and understand why I now miss her.Wisława Szymborska (Polish pronunciation:, born Jin Kórnik, Poland) is a Polish poet, essayist, and translator. Imperfection is easier to tolerate in small doses.” This is why my lecture will be rather short. And whenever I have said anything, I’ve always had the sneaking suspicion that I’m not very good at it. I’ve said very little on the subject-next to nothing, in fact. But I have a feeling that the sentences to come-the third, the sixth, the tenth, and so on, up to the final line-will be just as hard, since I’m supposed to talk about poetry. This collection also includes her Nobel Lecture from 1996, which captures right from the start her wit and humility: “They say that the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. In her POEMS NEW AND COLLECTED, 1957-1997, here are a few of my favorites: Szymborska’s work (in translation) is very accessible-by turns humorous, philosophical, and wise. Which is a shame, because some poets work wonders with words and deserve more attention. Poetry is like that, I think: it seems like the kind of thing that you only read in school or if you are especially artsy or geeky or a poet yourself. Szymborska was a Nobel Prize-winning poet, and I fear that not enough people are aware of what she gifts she brought. A guy I admired in college used to say, “We have too much work to do not to _” and he would fill in the blank with things like “go to the movies” or “read a book just for fun.” The news of Wislawa Szymborska’s recent passing reminded me of this friend’s joie de vivre and his determination to carpe every diem.
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