You’ll find the pathos too of such beautiful expression in the poem Migrant Bites. ‘So much guilt behind them and such beauty’Īnd in the poem Movement you will read this ironic beauty in its expression. One of the two opening epigraphs to this collection is from Czeslaw Milosz ‘Death walked towards me, holding an empty paper-bag’ Their use in this collection matters and impacts, as It should be obvious, but I stress I am not dissing the metaphors. Have their genuine care and concern usurped by a universally empty emotion expressed through the metaphor ‘I stumbled over a man in a pool of blood. In this constant context, The Unmoving by Maria Stadnicka probably doesn’t seek to move us – being realistic – but is so much more than reportage as its purposeful metaphors convey, And in this one familiar, lame excuse we sense the uselessness of criticism of those atrocities carried out on one another in our world.Īs the UN Rohingya genocide report is just released, one wonders how this reveals anything in addition to what the whole world has already ‘witnessed’ at the actual time of its happening shown on our TVs: burning homes in the villages the orderly horror of the escaping refugees.
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