Questions tagged [pavlo-tychyna-poetry-collection]
Full name: "Pavlo Tychyna: The Complete Early Poetry Collections". Use with the [ukrainian-literature], [pavlo-tychyna], and [poetry] tags as appropriate.
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Why does the river refer to itself in the plural?
The Golden Hum by Pavlo Tychyna includes the following:
:we'll grow tall! said the poplars.
:we'll burst into song! said the flowers.
:we'll overflow: said Old Man Dnipro.
The poplars, flowers, and ...
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Why is "The choir of bell-flowers" referred to as "a fragment of a long poem" in the subtitle?
The Choir of Bell-Flowers by Pavlo Tychyna in The Complete Early Poetry Collection has the subtitle "A fragment of a long poem". What does this mean? Was that added by the translator or by ...
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Why do some lines in Stanza 2 of "Pastel" start with a colon?
from Pastel by Pavlo Tychyna:
II
The iron day
Drank up some good wine
Blossom, meadows! -
:I've been walking-for a day-
Graze, herds!-
:to see my love- for a day-
Ears of grain like cradles sway!-
:...
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Why do willows go to the Cathedral?
Cathedral by Pavlo Tychyna starts as follows:
Willows to one side,
Beggars to the other.
the willows bend and bend and bend.
The beggars stoop over.
Why is the Cathedral attended by those two groups ...
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What is swamp milk?
Pavlo Tychyna's poem Enharmonies starts as follows:
Above the swamp milk is spun...
A black raven lost in thought
A grey raven is musing
It pecked out eyes. God knows whose.
I'm confused by this, ...
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Why did the sacrifice make the trees free?
The poem The poplars in the fallow fields are free starts as follows:
The poplars in the fallow fields are free
(Someone had brought a sacrifice at Sundown)
What is this referring to? Who was the ...
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Why was the rye angry about being called "golden"?
From the poem "Somewhere Spring Approached" by Pavlo Tychnya:
The rye ripened. I told her: "You're Golden!"
Angrily her eyebrows splintered.
She turned away. And left.
And just ...
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Why does "Like Harps, Like Harps" end with "Lament..."?
The poem Like Harps, Like Harps (from Pavlo Tychyna: The Complete Early Poetry Collection) by Pavlo Tychnya is as follows:
Like harps, like harps -
the golden groves resounded
Selfstrumming:
spring ...