Szymborska is a metaphysical poet who utilises conversational language and paradoxical bluntness, resulting in her poems being uniquely hers. This was shown in her poem ‘possibilities’, where her preferences are often idiosyncratic but create a realistic image of her that seems almost relatable in how different all people are.
She lived through WW2 and the years of communist Poland. This has shaped her outlook on life in how she appears pessimistic towards humanity but optimistic about the world. Her poem ‘a political age’ reflects all that has happened in her lifetime and how one cannot escape politics even though it can be quite useless. Her life experience is also shown in her poem ‘hatred’, where she references ‘religion’ and ‘fatherland’, two themes she said carried weight and have blood flowing through them in response to a fan’s poetry. The idea of fatherland may be a reference to the second world war. As we discussed in cases, she may also have been partly blaming patriarchal society as war and violence happened under their leadership.