Tak mało czy tak dużo? O interpretacji Daru Czesława Miłosza w gimnazjum
So little or so much? On the Interpretation of Gift by Czesław Miłosz in junior high school

Author(s): Grażyna B. Tomaszewska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Czesław Miłosz; Gift; interpretation; research;junior high school;
Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the outcome of students’ analytical and interpretational tasks related to Miłosz’s poem Gift (the results of IBE research „The Didactics of Literature and Language in Junior High School in the Light of the New Curriculum” 2012—2015). Gift is, on the one hand, a difficult and hermetic poem — as indicated in the readers’ survey in „Gazeta Wyborcza” — and incredibly popular, on the other. The article points both to the shortcomings of the students’ skills (including the hypotheses of their causes), and the outcome which shows the maturity of junior high school readers, as well as the inspiration for constructing a dialogue and preparing the student to participate in the social and cultural life. What is more, the text confronts the opinions of literary critics and Miłosz’s poetry lovers with students’ interpretations. Such a confrontation is not discreditable for the students, but rather, it discloses their potential related to insightful reading of poetry.

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