September 11, 2001. A date that has unfortunately left its mark on our history. Twenty-two years later, the memory is still vivid, so much so that many remember exactly what they were doing the moment all the news broadcasts announced that the first plane had crashed at the airport Twin Towers.
The world was never the same after that day.
To commemorate this date, we communicate the following to all victims of the attacks and those who lost their loved ones:Photo from September 11th“, a poem that won the Polish author the Nobel Prize for Literature Wisława Szymborska translates a famous photo of into verse Richard Drewwith the theme of a man who throws himself from one of the skyscrapers affected by the attacks to save himself from the flames.
“9/11 Photo” by Wisława Szymborska
They jumped down from the burning floors
…one, two, more
higher lower.
She captured a photo while she was still alive
and now preserves it
above the ground, facing the ground.
Each of them is still whole
with your own face
and the blood well hidden.
There’s still time
that her hair is messed up,
and why keys and change
fall out of the bag.
You are still in the realm of air,
within the places
that have just opened.
There are only two things I can do for her
…describe this flight
and don’t add a final word.
A snapshot you will never forget
Where the Twin Towers once stood, part of the World Trade Center complex, now stands Ground Zero, an unusually quiet place where time seems to have stood still to respect disbelief, pain, wounds and grief.
On September 11, 2001, something changed worldwide. This is why virtually all of us remember what we were planning to do when we heard the news of the attacks.
Associated Press photojournalist Richard Drew managed to capture a powerful moment from the attack on the Towers in the shot titled “The falling man“Drew made an eternal impression on a man who, in order to escape the flames of the explosion, decided to jump from the skyscraper in which he found himself.
Szymborska was inspired by this photo for her verse commemorating September 11th, turning it into a moving, emotional poem to forever commemorate the victims of the attacks and their identity.
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska is the most famous Polish poet who ever lived. Their collections are among the most popular and appreciated works by the public and have achieved incredible sales figures, in no way inferior to those of the most important prose writers, although Szymborska repeatedly ironically emphasized that poetry is popular with only two readers out of a thousand.
Wisława Szymborska was born on July 2, 1923 in a small western Polish town called Kornik and grew up in Kraków, where she studied literature and sociology.
Due to the family’s economic problems, he gave up his studies and started working on the railway. Thanks to this work, she managed to escape German deportation during World War II. Szymborska then worked as a secretary for an educational magazine and at the same time as a book illustrator. She was very active in the city’s cultural life and worked on the post-war magazine “Walka” (Struggle).
Wisława Szymborska’s poems were published in various magazines before being included in real poetry collections. The first composition “I’m looking for a word” was published in March 1945 in the newspaper Dziennik Polski.
After publishing her first collections, the author received editorships in several Polish magazines. Szymborska dedicated the third volume of poetry, “Appeal to the Yeti,” to the general public and critics. After numerous prizes and awards at home and abroad, she received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996.
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