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Analysis Of Czeslaw Milosz's Poem 'Hope'

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In Czeslaw Milosz’s poem “Hope”, the narrator portrays two different outlooks of life on earth, the first outlook is positive and the other is negative. Milosz begins by describing his point of view on the earth, he states, “the earth is not a dream but living flesh, / that sight, touch, and hearing do not lie” (Milosz 2-3). Milosz says that the earth is a “living flesh”, and a “living flesh” can be a synonym for a human or an animal. Milosz tries to express that the earth is a living thing, so therefore the earth is capable of performing many astonishing things. There are many things on earth that are so beautiful, that people think are fake, but they are truly real.
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