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"Ode to Liberty" is a poem written by Alexander Pushkin. [1] Upon graduation from the Lycee, Pushkin publicly recited the poem, one of several that led to his exile by Tsar Alexander the First. Authorities summoned Pushkin to Moscow after the poem was found among the belongings of the rebels from the Decembrist Uprising (1825). [2]
The poem primarily revolves around the poet's sentiments and emotions about those people who migrated from one sovereign state to another, leaving their native places. Subh-e-Azadi was written as an expression of solidarity with the people who was living either in India or Pakistan before the region split into two independent nations.
In Whitman’s poem, the reader can find symbolism through the journey of life and the open, democratic society of that time. In the first 8 sections of the poem, Whitman observes the freedoms in life shown through the open road, “Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road; Healthy, free, the world before me; The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.”
Her command of poetry had brought her international acclamation, Naidu's literary contribution, particularly for her poems with the themes like patriotism, romanticism and lyric for which she is called "Nightingale of India"—(Bharat Kokila) by Mahatma Gandhi. Her birthday is celebrated in India as National women's day. [4] [5]
On March 20, 2019, Harvard president Lawrence Bacow recited a stanza of Ötkür's poetry during his speech promoting the values of free speech and academic freedom at Peking University, one of China's top universities. [4] [5] His recitation of Ötkür's poetry was significant given the Chinese government's repression of Uyghurs. [4]
Des Wilson in 1987 as president of the Liberal Party, holding as symbol of his office a copy of Areopagitica. Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England is a 1644 prose polemic by the English poet, scholar, and polemical author John Milton opposing licensing. [1]
Shelley begins his poem, written on the occasion of the Peterloo Massacre, Manchester 1819, with the powerful images of the unjust forms of authority of his time, "God, and King, and Law" – and then imagines the stirrings of a radically new form of social action: "Let a great assembly be, of the fearless, of the free".