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A Study Guide for Wislawa Szymborska's "Some People Like Poetry" - Gale
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Some People Like Poetry
Wisława Szymborska
1993
Introduction
Originally published in Polish as Niektorzy lubia poezje
in the volume Koniec i poczatek (1993; the title translates to The End and the Beginning
but was not published in English translation), Some People Like Poetry
is a short poem in which the poet, Szymborska, explores the question of the nature and purpose of verse. The title is sometimes translated as Some Like Poetry.
A Polish poet who witnessed and survived the Nazi invasion of Poland in World War II and the subsequent Communist takeover of her country, Szymborska's poetry addresses the weighty themes of war as well as simple everyday experiences. Her work began being extensively translated into English following her winning of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996. Some People Like Poetry
is included in the 1998 collection Poems: New and Collected, 1957-1997, translated from the Polish by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh.
Within the three apparently straightforward stanzas of Some People Like Poetry,
Szymborska comments on each of the words in her title, investigating the greater complexity of the individual ideas. She questions which and how many people actually like poetry, contemplates the notion of what it means to truly like
something, and then, in the final stanza, poses the enormous question of what poetry is. Not often treated individually by critics in assessments of Szymborska's body of work, the little poem is exemplary in many ways of her ambiguous style, in that it approaches a broad topic with great philosophical scope and yet treats the serious subject in an ostensibly lighthearted manner. Szymborska's structure,
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