Try to Praise The Mutilated World

In the beginning, God created heaven and earth. When He created Adam and Eve they sinned, this began the imperfect world today. This sin altered the world and represents the mutilated state portrayed in Adam Zagajewski’s poem, Try to Praise the Mutilated World. One must learn to accept (or praise) the faults of the world. The remembrance of someone’s death comes to mind when reading the poem. The world symbolizes the state of …

…Everyone has a purpose, and in this poem, Adam Zagajewski portrays the path of an individual’s continuum. Adam’s effective use of organic metaphors, images, alliterations and assonance describe this continuum efficiently. Without these poetic devices, the poem would not have the same depth and intuitiveness as it does. Descriptiveness also gives the poem body. Repetition of the phrase, “praise the mutilated world” is used to symbolize fate and the remembrance of an individual.