This might be cheating because this is a short excerpt from a book length poem, but it is still one of my favorites nonetheless and I think it fits really well with this chapter. As Hirschfield discusses, we tend to stereotype 'outward' poems as ones dealing with our surroundings (specifically nature) and 'inward' poems as ones where the speaker confronts something about themselves. This is certainly true, but it struck me when Hirschfield started discussing outward poems that can posses a reflective meaning. I think The Separate Notebooks is a blend of the first and second stances she discusses: the outward serving the poet's inner thoughts and the poet facing the outward in mutual regard. Milosz's begins the excerpt by directly facing the outside world (the second stance H. discusses), but then, once confronted with the largeness of the outward, he turns into himself and the poem's scope shrinks down to an individual level.
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I think that this is a great encapsulation of what Hirschfield was talking about in terms of inward and outward poetry. I also think that this poem is a great example of an outward poem that is reflecting inward, kind of breaking the boundaries a bit.
I like how the poem begins by describing the outer world and then moves to the poet's inner feelings on the world.