Kategorie: Poems
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Liberating the Mind from the Corset of School
Start of a Five-Part Series with Poems by Jacques Prévert For the French poet Jacques Prévert, school was – also from his own experience – more of an obstacle than a catalyst for the free spirit. His poems therefore repeatedly call for turning away from the traditional understanding of education.…
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Ilona Lay: October in the mountains. Meditations on happiness
What is happiness? Each person will give a different answer to this question. So there are no universally valid answers in this cycle of poems either. Instead, the cycle revolves around the essence of happiness in 17 meditations, which create a poetic monument to single moments of happiness. PDF Image:…
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Jules Breton: Beau soir d’hiver (Nice Winter Evening)
How a Poetic Painter sees a Winter Landscape Jules Breton (1827 – 1906) was a painter by profession, but also wrote poetry. However, as his poem Beau soir d’hiver (Beautiful Winter Evening) shows, his poems were often influenced by his work as a painter. Beautiful Winter Evening The snow spreads…
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Summer Dreams in Winter Hell
A Winter Song by Walther von der Vogelweide Winter can still be quite uncomfortable for us today. In earlier times, however, it could be life-threatening for people. A poem by the medieval minstrel Walther von der Vogelweide bears witness to this. [Winter]1 The world shone brightly, yellow, red and blue,The…
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Ilona Lay: Winter Dream
To celebrate the start of the new year, Planet Literature cordially invites you to a poetic winter walk with Ilona Lay. The truth lies in our dreams, poetry gives it voice! Winter Dream As now winter is powdering the towns,soothing the quarrels with silent wings; as the forest rustles away…
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Anna Akhmatova and the Russian Soul
Poems against Terror Anna Akhmatova, a renowned poet before the October Revolution, becamean ostracised outsider in the Bolshevik state. This is also reflected in her poems. PDF Title: Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya (1875 – 1952): Portrait of Anna Akhmatova (1914); Moscow, Tretyakov Gallery (Wikimedia Commons)– Detail
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