Questions tagged [like-water-like-fire]
Questions about 'Like Water, Like Fire', an anthology of Belarusian poetry in English translation published in 1971. Use with the tag [belarusian-literature].
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Why did the war-trenches get leveled over with sand?
The Belarusian poem It would be well by Maksim Tank (which was written in the aftermath of brutal fighting in Belarus during WWII) included the following line:
The winds level over our war-torn ...
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Does "Native Bread" refer to the Passover Story?
Native Bread by Piatro Hlebka starts as follows:
The fire burns. Round the trench is massing
For home yearn our countrymen,
And the partisan young lasses
Bake and dry flat loaves again.
May that ...
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Why did Valancin Taulaj refer to himself as a jailed Communist in this poem?
In his poem Last Words, Valancin Taulaj wrote:
I am a Communist! there are many like me
In this our land that from the dawn of time has growned,
Never shall magnates crush us, though they strike us,
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Who was Captain Hastel?
The Eagle Well-Spring by Alaksiej Zarycki was dedicated "to the memory of Captain Hastel."
It includes the lines
... For the eagle's grave came not seeking!
That's where Hastel's heart ...
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Why did Alaksiej Zarycki dedicate "The Heart" to Pimien Pancanka?
The Heart by Alaksiej Zarycki starts off by saying:
A miser I,
The greatest of misers
All that I can find in
My heart I am hiding.
Dreams from youth rising,
Battle's loud thunder,
Fortune'd bright ...
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Why does the poem "I Love" seem to imply that Belarus is fertile?
Follow-up to: Is Belarus actually hard to farm?
The poem I love by Kanstancyja Bujla contains the following lines:
I love our Byelorussian nation,
Cottages where green orchards throng,
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Why the different spellings of Belarus?
In several poems in Like Water, like Fire, Belarus is spelled "Byelorussia", and in some it's spelled "Biełaruś". Why is that?