White, lux and lumen in the poetry of Czesław Miłosz
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Czesław Miłosz, poetry, symbolism of color, white, light, lux, lumenAbstract
The use of the colour white, as with other colours evoked by Czesław Miłosz, is not the result of conscious elaboration (technical, philosophical or mystical). Instead, it seems that the colours belong to another level of thought; they are not chosen, they choose us. However, and this is the object of my demonstration, white and its various nuances structure Miłosz’s work. This work, which has been called the “wonderful mess” due to the many antithetical and apparently disparate themes with which it overflows, has already been explored using several critical approaches and following various common threads. Here, my chosen common thread is the colour white.
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