Lietuva prabėgus pusei amžiaus. Sugrįžimai (įsivaizduojami ir realūs) į Miłoszo vaikystės šalį
Lithuania After Half a Century. Miłosz’s Returns (Imaginary and Real) to the Country of his Childhood

Summary/Abstract: In the essay the author interprets the pictures of Lithuania and Vilnius which have appeared in Miłosz’s whole poetic creation. The starting point of the interpretation is the poem: In My Homeland… (from the volume Three Winters), in which referring to a model of poetry formed in Romanticism, Miłosz reflects upon a homeland lost forever. Miłosz’s late poetry and his creative biography is in perfect agreement with the Romantic paradigm of an emigrantpoet’s biography and Romantic nostalgic or imaginary pictures of a homeland lost forever. However, in the biography and poetry of the Three Winters’ author, there happened – according to the essay’s author – a miracle. The poet returned to Lithuania and described his returns in two poetic cycles: Lithuania after 52 years and In Szetejnie. The essay is a kind of an introduction to their interpretation and refers to the earlier interpretations written by Aleksander Fiut and Wojciech Ligęza. The author, however, draws attention to the fact that the most interesting aspect of the phenomenon of the analysed poem should be considered on the level of poetics as he notices the sameness of the means employed by Miłosz to confront both his real biography with hypothetical imaginary biographies (poems Walz and Fear-dream [1918]) and the homeland’s real picture confronted with imaginary and nostalgic pictures.

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