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This paper presents a literary analysis of this work from Nobel prize winning poet Wislawa Szymborska in four pages. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.
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measured meters and strictly structured in quatrains followed by a concluding couplet that were as perfect as a perfect love. Polish-born contemporary poet Wislawa Szymborska has no interest in
considering a perfection that can never exist in an imperfect world. Her poem True Love exposes the illusion that Petrarch and the sonneteers that followed in his creative footsteps
carefully concocted by breaking the rules of traditional love poetry. In True Love, there is little in the way of conventional
structure, with no metering, no rhyming words or customary poetic devices, and punctuation is used sparingly. The first stanza consisting of four lines simply questions the implications of
true love: "True love. Is it normal is it serious, is it practical? What does the world get from two people who exist in a world of their own?" (Szymborska
130) Here, the poet - once a strong supporter of the Communist Party leadership in Poland - seems to suggest that such a construct has no social benefits.
The second stanza is twice as long as the first and pokes fun at the way poets and writers have previously depicted love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the
same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it had to happen this way - in reward for what? For nothing. The light descends from nowhere.
Why on these two and not on others? Doesnt this outrage justice? Yes it does. Doesnt it disrupt our painstakingly erected principles, and cast the moral from the peak?
Yes on both accounts" (Szymborska 130). In this stanza, there is construction symbolism employed for ironic effect. True Love is placed on a pedestal that no mortal
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