1. Wislawa Szymborska  July 2, 1923- February 1, 2012  Born in Kornik (western Poland)  Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996  Her poetry reflects on Man “as an individual and member of human society.”  Her style is “marked by intellectual introspection, wit, & succinct and stylish choice of words.”

2. Szymborska’s conventions  Allusion  Irony  Paradox  Personification  Synecdoche  Apostrophe  Anaphora  Rhyme  Form  Enjambment  Caesura  Chiasmus  Asyndeton/ polysyndeton  Use of “white space”  Extended metaphor

3. Works  Calling Out to Yeti (1957)  Still  Salt (1962)  Clochard, Starvation Camp Near Jaslo, Rubens’ Women, Poetry Reading, The Tower of Babel, Synopsis  No End of Fun (1967)  Soliloquy for Cassandra & Written in a Hotel  A Large Number (1976)  Lot’s Wife, On the Banks of the Styx, Pi  The People on the Bridge (1986)  Hitler’s First Photograph & Into the Ark  Monologue of a Dog (2005)  Photograph from September 11