Kategorie: Poems
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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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