Miłosz i ptaki
Miłosz and the Birds

Summary/Abstract: Śniedziewska examines Miłosz’s relationship to animals – especially birds – as it can be reconstructed from Dolina Issy and some of his poems. Fascinated with both nature and hunting, Miłosz advocates for two contradictory positions. As soon as he enters the world of hunting – portryed by Schiller as a naive perspective – and begins to observe wild animals, he undergoes a radical change. Śniedziewska argues that Tomasz, the alter ego of the young Miłosz, whose perspective is influenced by the consciousness of the mature poet, never really attains real access to the wild birds’ world. Miłosz’s poems about birds, however, are part of his reflections on the essence of all living creatures. The place where his thoughts about birds intersect in his prose and poems are his remarks on the problem of classification: naming as appropriation.

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