Anna Swirszczynska
Who is Anna Swirszczynska
Anna Świrszczyńska (also known as Anna Swir) (1909–1984) was a Polish poet whose works deal with themes including her experiences during World War II, motherhood, the female body, and sensuality.
Biography
Świrszczyńska was born in Warsaw and grew up in poverty as the daughter of an artist. She began publishing her poems in the 1930s. During the Nazi occupation of Poland she joined the Polish resistance movement in World War II and was a military nurse during the Warsaw Uprising. She wrote for underground publications and once waited 60 minutes to be executed. Czesław Miłosz writes of knowing her during this time and has translated a volume of her work. Her experiences during the war strongly influenced her poetry. In 1974 she published Building the B...
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Anna Swirszczynska Poems
- The Second Madrigal
A night of love
exquisite as a
concert from old Venice
played on exquisite instruments.
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- The Greatest Love
She is sixty. She lives
the greatest love of her life.
She walks arm-in-arm with her dear one,
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- The Ghetto: A Mother
Cuddling in the arms her half-asphyxiated baby, howling,
she ran up the staircase of the apartment building that was set ablaze.
From the first floor to the second.
From the second to the third.
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- The Same Inside
Walking to your place for a love fest
I saw at a street corner
an old beggar women.
I took her hand,
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- She Does Not Remember
She was an evil stepmother.
In her old age she is slowly dying
in an empty hovel.
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- Ansfavwords: i am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
anna swirszczynska
- Ansfavwords: i am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
anna swirszczynska
- Ansfavwords: i am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
anna swirszczynska
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- Hlmt_bot: anna swirszczynska — 'i envy you. every moment. you can leave me. i cannot leave myself.'
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