What is the role of the past? What happened? What do you understand about the poem’s and the speaker’s present?
At the poem’s end, Milsoz included information critical to the poem’s context: Warsaw 1945. This clue is like a time stamp. It gives the reader necessary insight into who the dead are that the speaker is addressing, it supplies necessary and specific historical context, and illuminates the reason behind the tone of the poem. Then, […]