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Original Poem Reprinted Online Here: "Dedication" by Czeslaw Milosz More Information about the Poet: Czeslaw Milosz The use of the second person is hard to implement in poems.  The first question is always whom is the speaker referring to?  For example the first stanza:      You whom I could not save      Listen to me.      Try to understand this simple speech as I would be ashamed of another.      I swear, there is in me no wizardry of words.      I speak to you with silence like a cloud or a tree. The first two lines of the poem seems as though announce the speaker addressing a specter (or spectator) with such a dire objective of "saving" someone. The speaker continues to try to persuade the other to listening to everything by saying the speech (monologue) will be simple, the speaker swears it.  But then the last line, "I speak to you with silence like a cloud or a tree" transforms the poem into ...

Original poem reprinted online here: "Song on The End of the World" by Czeslaw Milosz  Originally read: November 12, 2013 More information about the Poet: Czeslaw Milosz  So this poem is more of a cause and effect type of poem.  The cause and the effect is not about "the end of the world" though.  This poem plays with perceptions. There's no set stanza structure or order which is important in this poem because there's nothing to predict through the structure like the first two lines, "On the day the world ends, / A bee circles a clover,"  and then starts the list of the ordinary, but not mundane: A fisherman mends a glimmering net Happy porpoises jump in the sea,  By the rainspout young sparrows are playing And the snake is gold-skinned as it should always be Note with this list, the focus is to the sea and then the land.  This focus also brings in the actions of people and the actions of animals -- either they are unaware, or don't care.  Act...