Final Paper Blog

For my final paper, I think I will imitate the style of Waslawa Szymbroska. Although her poems were translated into English, they still have a powerful and unique style that I would like to mimic. I am not sure which topic I will cover, since she chose powerful ideas such as true love and death, in the poems we analyzed in class. To write the poem, I will copy one of her poems. If I imitate the poem, "On Death, without Exaggeration," I will use the same tone she displays in the sarcastic persona of the speaker to try to show the reader a different perspective on a popular topic. However, I may chose a more light-hearted topic and mimic the poem, "True Love." I like the tone of this poem more because although it has the same sarcastic and slightly belittling tone, the author clearly shows that the image is powerful in itself, beyond examination and criticism, because of what it does for those who have it. I'd like to copy Waslawa Szymbroska because the style of her work is distinct because she has a sarcastic, critical tone in her analysis of sensitive and emotional topics. Unlike other poets, she does not exaggerate topics such as true love or death, but rather she questions them and seemingly belittles them in order to emphasize their inherent power. Szymbroska makes it clear through poetic elements that she truly does believe in the power of such topics. Hopefully I can do a similar topic justice as I mimic her style, the way she uses the elements of poetry, and the persona that she creates for her speaker to emphasize the theme she writes about.