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    A great example of personification by the Polish poetic Zbigniew Herbert. He was born in Lwów, a city that was part of Poland at the time he wrote, just before, during and after World War II.

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    A great example of personification by the Polish poetic Zbigniew Herbert. He was born in Lwów, a city that was part of Poland at the time he wrote, just before, during and after World War II.

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    Armchairs

    By Zbigniew Herbert

    Who ever thought a warm neck would become an armrest, or legs eager for flight and joy
    could stiffen into four simple stilts? Armchairs were once noble flower-eating creatures.
    However they allowed themselves too easily to be domesticated and today they are the
    most wretched species of quadrupeds. They have lost all their stubbornness and courage.
    They are only meek. They haven't trampled anyone or galloped off with anyone. They
    are, for certain, conscious of a wasted life.

    The despair of armchairs is revealed in their creaking.

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