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One poem in this language asks "what will remain after us / will it be lovers' weeping / in a small dirty hotel / when wall-paper dawns" and unfavorably compares "generals of the most recent wars" to Thucydides after the Battle of Amphipolis. The dying speaker of a poem in this language wishes that "this sad heart of mine in leaves of aloe burn! / And give it then to her who's given it to me" while imagining his friends drinking at his funeral. "Those who expected thunder and lightning / Are disappointed" by the end of the world in a poem in this language, which was used to write several poems that personify humanity as "Mr. Cogito". The author of the collections Three Winters and Facing the River used this language to write a book that discusses ketman and profiles Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta, who all give into the Communist state. The Captive Mind is a work in, for 10 points, what language of Zbigniew Herbert, Juliusz Słowacki (swo-VAHT-ski) and Czesław Miłosz (tche-swaf mee-wosh)?
One poem in this language asks "what will remain after us / will it be lovers' weeping / in a small dirty hotel / when wall-paper dawns" and unfavorably compares "generals of the most recent wars" to Thucydides after the Battle of Amphipolis.
Polish [or j ̧ezyk polski; or polszczyzna]