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Czesław Miłosz

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Song of a Citizen Summary

"Song of a Citizen" is a poem by the Nobel Prizewinning poet, Czeslaw Milosz. It was written in 1943, during the German occupation of Warsaw and was published in Polish in Milosz's collection Ocalenie (English translation, Rescue) in 1945. However, the poem was unavailable in English until 1973, when it appeared in Milosz's Selected Poems in a translation by the author.

The context of the poem is the enormous social and political upheaval that Milosz has...

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