Rescue or about poetry despite trauma. Affection, imagination and community in Czeslaw Milosz’s works in the 40s.

In the sketch, I try to highlight the uniqueness of thinking about creative passion and poetry of Czeslaw Milosz, especially the practical implementation of his worldview in the volume of Rescue. On the one hand I attempt to capture the development of Milosz’s reflection and artistic creation from late 30s to early 50s, by showing how he has struggled with two tendencies: transparency stemming from his left-wing youth and designed to enable communication with the community of ordinary people and maintenance of vivid imagination, in which manifests the indefinite affect of artisitic creation, the vital force. The second trend of his work in a particular way becomes present in Rescue, so that the poet has already at the time of war created a formula for going through trauma in order to allow the return to life, to sensory and diverse reality, as well as ethical opening to another human being.

 

In the sketch, I try to highlight the uniqueness of thinking about creative passion and poetry of Czeslaw Milosz, especially the practical implementation of his worldview in the volume of Rescue. On the one hand I attempt to capture the development of Milosz’s reflection and artistic creation from late 30s to early 50s, by showing how he has struggled with two tendencies: transparency stemming from his left-wing youth and designed to enable communication with the community of ordinary people and maintenance of vivid imagination, in which manifests the indefinite affect of artisitic creation, the vital force. The second trend of his work in a particular way becomes present in Rescue, so that the poet has already at the time of war created a formula for going through trauma in order to allow the return to life, to sensory and diverse reality, as well as ethical opening to another human being.