A lot of the poems in this collection felt meh for me -- but occasionally there would be a few poems that would hint at the style Szymborska would later develop that I would really appreciate it.

It's hard to describe it -- but if i had to list some things that seemed to recur in poems of hers i liked, it would be:

-simple, non playful language
-jostling between the macro and micro
-estrangement of common ideas while discussing them
-reveling in the un-necessity of life and time