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Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of My City (German: Porzellan. Poem vom Untergang meiner Stadt ) is a 2005 poetry collection by the German writer Durs Grünbein . It consists of 49 poems about the city of Dresden , lamenting its developments and destruction in February 1945 when the Allies of World War II subjected it to heavy aerial bombardment .
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The original poem did not survive, but in 1950–1951, working in a hard labour camp near Ekibastuz, Solzhenitsyn restored Chapter 8 and Chapter 9 (The Feast of the Victors) as separate poems. [1] The poem is in trochaic tetrameter , "in imitation of, and argument with the most famous Russian war poem, Aleksandr Tvardovsky 's Vasili Tyorkin ."
"The Life That I Have" (sometimes referred to as "Yours") is a short poem written by Leo Marks and used as a poem code in the Second World War. In the war, famous poems were used to encrypt messages. This was, however, found to be insecure because enemy cryptanalysts were able to locate the original from published sources. Marks countered this ...
I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942–1944 is a collection of works of art and poetry by Jewish children who lived in the concentration camp Theresienstadt. They were created at the camp in secret art classes taught by Austrian artist and educator Friedl Dicker-Brandeis.
One of the most popular poems ever written in Russia, Wait for Me was especially popular with the frontoviks (front-line soldiers) in the Great Patriotic War, as Russians call World War II. [3] A number of servicemen cut out the poem from Pravda and mailed it to their girlfriends and wives, who in turn wrote poems declaring that they would wait ...
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