The poem Vermeer, from the newest Wisława Szymborska’s anthology Here (2009), is one of the shortest works of the Nobel prizewinner. Both conciseness of the text and its connection with the 17th century Dutch painting encouraged the author to make a meticulous analysis in which euphony and phonetic harmony play the main role. The initial analysis of stylistic layer leads to hermeneutic interpretation, which, through comparison of the literary work and Vermeer’s painting The Milkmaid (1658), shows that Szymborska’s work could be read as a special kind of haiku. The key scene described by the poet, pouring milk from the jug into the bowl, which takes place “in the painted silence and attention”, evokes symbolic and religious senses. It occurs that understanding the deep meaning of the poem leads the reader to the space of archetypal mystery and makes one ponder over the force that keeps the world going day by day.
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