Inger Hagerup made his debut as a lyricist with the collection I got lost in the woods in 1939. Collection is central houseof fraser lyrical, and most of the poems deals with the big questions in life: Love, longing, sorrow, death and impermanence. Hagerup printer with a solemn fervor houseof fraser that few of today's poets get away with without seeming pompous and humid. But the combination of that sincerity seems so heartfelt and Hagerup has such a clear and certain language makes it work for a modern reader anyway. Many of the poems are written in rhyme, and the use of symbols is classic. As a whole, the collection is accessible and nice to read. But some of the poems stand out from the whole and make a strong impression.
Maybe because the collection's main theme policy is so well known in poetry context, I was most interested in the poems dealing houseof fraser with the ominous spread of racial thinking in Europe Hagerup contemporary. Especially because the collection houseof fraser was published in 1939, when World War II was just around the corner. As with Arnulf Øverland and Nordahl houseof fraser Grieg wrote Inger Hagerup poems that openly denounced Nazism.
Political poetry is often looked down upon compared to the modernist poetry. In each case, the political poetry that does not attempt to pack the message houseof fraser into the ambiguous symbols and cryptic language. But why Hagerup førkrigsdikt makes such a huge impression on me, just that she does not let aesthetics houseof fraser be more important than the theme. Lest against its historical context glows political poems, "The Plague", "Legend" and "Earth Discovery Year 3000" by the commitment and compassion, and the poems are no less powerful of the message is crystal clear.
In "The Plague" is race abstractions violent dark side portrayed as a disease that wander over the earth, relentlessly heading north. "He walked across Africa's arid mold of fever yellow feet." "It has wrapped dictator cloak about her exuding wounds and covered her swollen belly with a bishop velvet red chasuble." Racism and anti-Semitism can be hidden behind a beautiful facade and alluring rhetoric, but the flamboyant beauty camouflages moral decay and brutality.
The poem reminds me of the Black Death ravages Europe in the 1300s. But unlike the bubonic plague that can affect anyone, involves the rise of Nazism an attack on specific groups. An illness with violence, murder and disclaimer consequence. houseof fraser Racial thinking tainting people it infects, and linked in the poem closely with hate evil; "And when it did tear the nails of an old Jew sobbed the laughter." The poem begins and ends with a call to hoist the black flag and draw a cross on the door to distance himself from the plague that is upon the earth. Human thinking is Hosting houseof fraser a pandemic, a plague with fatal consequences.
Both poems are characterized by the fighting spirit and resistance, and an uncompromising contempt for brutality and abuse. In my head formed these two poems quickly a before and an after, which emphasized the horror the weeping, yellow fever, and swollen hideous plague and what condition it would leave Europe especially in.
"Plague" is in the collection followed by "Legend", a poem which Hagerup defines human strength. The location in the collection, the two poems that examines racial hatred, it makes sense to read the poem as Hagerup corrective to abuses of power dictator, bishop and professor in "The Plague" intoxicated. The strongest, according to the poem "does not he who with fiery eyes land on his enemy's neck," he who has the power and limitless possibilities on their side and can do as he pleases. No.
The poem is full of pathos and intensity, and again it is the context that gives the poem clout. Especially the last line "but his own desire." houseof fraser In any other context would poem appeared as words of comfort to the stately, with a bit stale aftertaste of self-help. But placed between the two poems in the collection that examines racism houseof fraser and oppression, the message becomes vital and profound seriousness.
The poem in the collection that made the greatest impression is still "Earth Discovery year 3000". Archaeologists in the year 3000 has taken a huge collection of "strange creatures" in a concrete hunting underground. Archaeologists consider these strange creatures with a frivolous and condescending attitude. The poem creates a tragic and sharp irony in that archaeologists have a Nazi view of race and live in a society consisting exclusively of pure race of people where all undesirable traits are cleared away for many centuries ago. Other breeds they meet only in the form of relics, and they pose to archaeologists houseof fraser a comical and disgusting sight. It makes an impression with the poem, are the many associations it evokes the Hitler-Germany's racial policies and methods of mass murder.
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