Kategorie: Poets
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Jacques Prévert: The Poet of Everyday Life
Jacques Prévert is a poetic icon in France today, his poems are part of the school curriculum. Given the poet’s deliberate distance from high culture and notably from traditional school education, this is not devoid of irony. The present eBook sketches a portrait of the poet in five chapters. In…
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Little Song about my Life (And the first love …)
Bulat Okudzhava’s Little Song About My Life. While the Soviet leadership was trying to secure peace through repression and nuclear weapons, intensive discussions were taking place in dissident circles about the mental prerequisites of war and peace. This is also reflected in Bulat Okudzhava’s Little Song About My Life. Bulat Okudzhava (1924…
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When Tears No Longer Quench the Grief
Vladimir Vysotsky’s song Bratskiye Mogily (Mass Graves) The poem Mass Graves by the Russian guitar poet Vladimir Vysotsky, written in 1963, referred at the time to Russian victims in the Second World War. Today, however, we associate it with mass graves caused by Russia itself. No crosses can be seen on mass graves,here you…
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A Peace Prayer Against the Witchcraft of War
A Song by Boris Grebenshchikov about Good and Evil Magic In his song Vorozhba (Magic Powers), the Russian singer-songwriter Boris Grebenshchikov contrasts the evil magic of war with the healing magic of a life based on striving for harmony with oneself and the world. Grebenshchikov’s „No to War“ With Boris Grebenshchikov, another…
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Ilona Lay: Nocturnal Butterflies
A Poem from the Author’s Early Work In her poem Nachtfalter („Nocturnal Butterflies“), Ilona Lay creates the vision of a world determined by reflection and empathy. Especially today, this seems to be a fitting counter-image to our reality, which is marked by war and destruction. Ilona Lay has once again…
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Anna Akhmatova and the Russian Soul
Poems against Terror Anna Akhmatova, a renowned poet before the October Revolution, became an ostracised outsider in the Bolshevik state. This is also reflected in her poems.
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