nd as well. In the first two lines, she is saying that the final exam is the history of mankind. The second two lines are about how the world will remain regardless of whether or not Mankind will survive. The next two lines she is uncomfortable thinking or admitting the fact that humans at times are cruel and unkind. Life depends on how well humans interact with each other. The next two lines she talks about how some people live their lives by just going with the flow and not contributing anything during their lives. The other people may not make actual contributions to their fate and the fate of humankind, but at least some people try to think of ways to make life a little better. The last three lines she says that just when she doesn't feel like trying anymore, and is ready to accept life in a passive way, she is prompted to fight again for a better life becau! se she doesn't want to just be alive, she wants to live life for all that it's worth. Even though Bruegel's painting was created in 1562, it is obvious from Szymborska's writing that his works still apply to contemporary issues and modern-day lives.Works Cited"Bruegel, Family of Painters." http://sunserv.kfki.hu/arthp/bio/b/bruegel/biograph.htm/ 5 Apr. 1997. Bruegel,Peter. Two Chained Monkeys. Stanford color plate #7. Gibson, Walter S. Bruegel. New York and Toronto: Oxford UP, 1977. Gombrich, E.H. The Story of Art. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995 Heintz, Jim. "Polish Poet Gets Nobel Prize." The Associated Press News Service 3 Oct. 1996: 1. Hirsch, Edward. "A Poetry that Matters: Wislawa Szymborska." The New York Times Magazine, Dec. 1,1996: 46-50. Stanford, Judith A. Responding to Literature. Mountain View, California: Mayfield, 1996 Szymborska, Wislawa. "Bruegel's Two Monkeys." Stanford color plate #7.*/PRE**/font**/td**/tr**tr**td align=center**SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"**!--r=Math.round(Math.random()*1000000000)+1;s="PopularSitescom";p="PopularSites";docu...
