„Nel cuore della distruzione”. Miłosz e il recupero della poesia come mitopoiesi
“In the Heart of Destruction”. Miłosz and the recovery of poetry as mythopoiesis

Summary/Abstract: Starting with an analysis of two works by Czesław Miłosz, namely Lullaby (1933/1934) and The World. A Naive Poem (1943), the essay aims at examining the process of the author’s rediscovery of the mythopoetic function of lyric poetry during World War II. Characterized by the use of a child’s perspective and imagination, marked more or less clearly by the experience of war catastrophe – both compositions are constructed by antithesis, and poetically founded on different forms of imagination in the service of an axiology which attests a radical transformation of the poetic quest.

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