I still remember as a young girl on the banks of Eurotas, the sound of a tree peeling its bark by itself The peelings, fell softly in the water floating away like triremes, and I waited one way or another for a black butterfly with, to sit on a piece of bark amazed that although motionless, and it entertained me that butterflies though experts in the air, have no idea about traveling in water or of rowing And so it came. Its been 79 years since Ritsos wrote Epitaphios in just four days. Returning to the country that has inspired some of her best-loved fiction - including the modern classic, The Island - Victoria Hislop's enthralling new novel explores love across battle lines and the lasting repercussions of splintered loyalty. To use Pantelis Prevelakis words, Without Ritsos eloquence, Greeks would have forgotten how to name a major part of all those things that are there before their eyes. Through both. [.] like a blanket spread out in the window, warmed by the sun. Register now and publish your best poems or read and bookmark your favorite popular famous poems. so certain and tame and solid are they The words they spoke to one anotherwere the same as those I saw in stone fragmentson the floor of the archeological dig at Madinat az-Zahra,the ruined capital of the West looking East towardthe cities left behind. Yiannis Ritsos's 'Epitaphios,' a song that both united and divided Ritsos poems speak intimately, as dreams. and a forest made of paper soaked in the drizzle. all the trees run to the horizon, and there is a force of unspent joy Yiannis Ritsos (Greek: ; 1 May 1909 - 11 November 1990) was a Greek poet and communist and an active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II. This symbolic poem was written by Yiannis Ritsos and was set to music by one of the most significant Greek composers, Mikis Theodorakis. (because maybe he fears the trembling of his hands) Yannis Ritsos | Greek writer | Britannica
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