''Ocalenie'' ("Rescue") is a poetry collection by

Czesław Miłosz Czesław Miłosz ( , , ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish Americans, Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. He primarily wrote his poetry in Polish language, Polish. Regarded as one of the great poets of the ...

. It was first published in 1945. Many of the poems collected were written in

Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...

during the

Nazi occupation German-occupied Europe, or Nazi-occupied Europe, refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied, including puppet states, by the (armed forces) and the government of Nazi Germany at ...

Partial contents

* "World: Naïve Poems"—a sequence of

pastoral The pastoral genre of literature, art, or music depicts an idealised form of the shepherd's lifestyle – herding livestock around open areas of land according to the seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture. The target au ...

poems ** "By the Peonies" * "Song on the End of the World" * "Campo dei Fiori"—"a civic-minded poem about people’s indifference to the deaths of others" * "The Voices of Poor People"—cycle ** "A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto" * "Dedication"

References

1945 poetry books Polish poetry collections Poetry by Czesław Miłosz {{1940s-poem-stub