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He posits the good side of human reason over the bad one in order to convey his support for the former. In this poem, Milosz talks about human reason. This poem was translated by Robert Pinsky and Czeslaw Milosz. Source: A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto

My broken body will deliver me to his sightĪnd he will count me among the helpers of death: Waiting two thousand years for the second coming of Jesus? What will I tell him, I, a Jew of the New Testament, I am afraid, so afraid of the guardian mole. Being a jew, the speaker feels sad as he managed to survive the brutalities while others could not. In this poem, he describes the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto. Milosz wrote this poem in Warsaw in 1943. This piece belongs to the poetry cycle published in Ocalenie, “The Voices of Poor People”. It was one of the poems that were selected by the Nobel Library of the Swedish Academy to feature in their list of Czeslaw Milosz’s best poetry. Here are a few crucial lines from the poem:

It was written as a sort of moral obligation that made the poet write this piece. According to Milosz, the central theme of this poem is the vulnerability and loneliness of dying men. In this poem, Milosz talks about people’s indifference to others’ deaths. This piece also appears in Ocalenie (1945). It is another of the best-known poems that Milosz wrote while he was in Warsaw in 1943. Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy, Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet Those who thought the world would end after the Great Wars, the poet answers them in these lines of the poem.Īnd those who expected lightning and thunderĪnd those who expected signs and archangels’ trumpsĪs long as the sun and the moon are above, In this poem, Milosz optimistically declares there won’t be any end of the world as long as the beautiful things of nature are kept intact. Milosz wrote this poem in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation in 1944. It was published in his poetry collection Ocalenie (“Rescue”), written just after the end of the Second World War. “A Song on the End of the World” is one of the best-known poems of Czeslaw Milosz.