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    A Study Guide for Czeslaw Milosz's "From the Rising of the Sun"
    A Study Guide for Czeslaw Milosz's "From the Rising of the Sun"
    A Study Guide for Czeslaw Milosz's "From the Rising of the Sun"
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    A Study Guide for Czeslaw Milosz's "From the Rising of the Sun"

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    A Study Guide for Czeslaw Milosz's "From the Rising of the Sun," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535823715
    A Study Guide for Czeslaw Milosz's "From the Rising of the Sun"

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      A Study Guide for Czeslaw Milosz's "From the Rising of the Sun" - Gale

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      From the Rising of the Sun

      Czeslaw Milosz

      1974

      Introduction

      Czeslaw Milosz's poem bearing the Polish title Gdzie wschodzi słońce i kedy zapada, later translated as From the Rising of the Sun, was published in 1974 in a collection titled with the name of the same poem. An English translation of From the Rising of the Sun is available in Milosz's New and Collected Poems (1931-2001) (2001). Milosz was born in Lithuania, which at the time, in 1911, was a part of the Russian Empire. (Following the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the subsequent Russian Civil War, which lasted from 1918 until 1921, the region known as the Russian Empire would become the Soviet Union.) Milosz was educated in an area of the Lithuanian region that after World War I had become a part of Poland; hence the language in which he wrote the majority of his works was Polish.

      From the Rising of the Sun is a lengthy poem featuring a combination of verse and prose and is considered by some critics to be among Milosz's greatest works, although in his lifetime Milosz's poetry was somewhat overshadowed by his political and philosophical essays. The poem is a work of great thematic and stylistic complexity. Like many of Milosz's works, poetic and otherwise, it explores issues that were dear to him throughout his life, including those pertaining to religion and theology, the relationship between faith and reason, and the natural world. The work also reflects the poet's longing for his native Lithuania, in part through reminiscences of the neighborhoods he recalls from his childhood there. A survivor of both World Wars I and II, Milosz is one of the best-known Polish writers in the West, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in

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