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And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings,
That appeared once, still wet
As shining chestnuts under a tree in autumn,
And, touched, coddled, began to live
In spite of fires on the horizon, castles blown up,
Tribes on the march, planets in motion.
“We are, ” they said, even as their pages
Were being torn out, or a buzzing flame
Licked away their letters. So much more durable
Than we are, whose frail warmth
Cools down with memory, disperses, perishes.
I imagine the earth when I am no more:
Nothing happens, no loss, it’s still a strange pageant,
Women’s dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley.
Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born,
Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.
Czeslaw Milosz
Poems by Czeslaw Mil
QUESTION: World War 2 and Nazism influenced many European writers. In this selection identify the tones and perspectives this writer brings to bear on this subject?
I don't really understand what all this poem has to do with Nazism? Is it saying that even though bad things are happening wars, fires, etc. things will one day be good again with books , "women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley..."
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