DDCPoetry

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 ...