Kategorie: Poets
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Suffocate Me with a Boring Fairy Tale
Anna Akhmatova’s Poems against Terror, Part 3 The concern for her imprisoned son and the struggle for his survival were an extreme psychological and physical burden for Anna Akhmatova. At times, even the thought of death seemed like salvation. To DeathYou will come anyway – so why not now?I am…
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At night, fear rummages through my belongings
Anna Akhmatova’s Poems against Terror, Part 1 Anna Akhmatova, a renowned poet before the October Revolution, became an ostracised outsider in the Bolshevik state. This is also reflected in her poems. Opening of a three-part series on the poet. At night, fear rummages through my belongings,a hatchet flashes in the…
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The Woman: Goddess or Predator?
Poems from Charles Baudelaires Collection of Poetry Les Fleurs du mal/7 The representation of female figures in Baudelaire’s work is distinctly ambiguous. The woman can appear as a man-eating femme fatale, but also as an angel-like being who promises salvation from the valley of earthly life. An Ambivalent Image of…
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When Scents Intermingle with Sounds
Poems from Charles Baudelaires Collection of Poetry Les Fleurs du mal/6 For Baudelaire, the path to harmony – in an external and internal, natural and cultural, existential and social sense – leads through the realm of imagination. Its ability to connect seemingly incompatible things and to reconcile opposites is considered…
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The Fleurs du mal as Flowers of the Night
Poems from Charles Baudelaires Collection of Poetry Les Fleurs du mal/5 With his understanding of poetry, Charles Baudelaire stands on the „night side“ of life in a double sense: he is a social outsider and draws on the world of dreams and visions for expression in his poetry. The „Idea…
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The Scent of Eternity
Poems from Charles Baudelaires Collection of Poetry Les Fleurs du mal/4 Charles Baudelaire’s poetic flower garden exudes a great multitude of fragrances. The most exquisite of them enable us to achieve what Baudelaire regarded as the most noble goal of his poetry: they allow us to „catch a glimpse of…
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