Kategorie: Poets
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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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Robert de Souza: Le sommeil des cygnes (Sleeping Swans)
The work of the French poet Robert de Souza (1864 – 1946) has been unjustly fallen into oblivion. This can be exemplified by his poem Le sommeil des cygnes (The Sleep of the Swans / Sleeping Swans). It is obviously inspired by symbolism, but has a meditative tone all of…
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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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The Homeless Homeland Poet
About the Russian Poet Sergei Yesenin With an English Adaptation of One of his Autumn Poems The Russian poet Sergei Yesenin (1895 – 1925) described himself as the „last peasant poet“. The inner conflict that characterises many of his poems, however, rather reflects life in the modern age and the…
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