tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1694677092809567917..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Wislawa Szymborska: Children of Our Age ("To acquire a political meaning / you don’t even have to be human")Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-25226208540389773762015-09-20T19:09:19.242-07:002015-09-20T19:09:19.242-07:00Stanislaw Baranczak: "The typical lyrical sit...Stanislaw Baranczak: "The typical lyrical situation on which a Szymborska poem is founded is the confrontation between the directly stated or implied opinion on an issue and the question that raises doubt about its validity. The opinion not only reflects some widely shared belief or is representative of some widespread mind-set, but also, as a rule, has a certain doctrinaire ring to it: the philosophy behind it is usually speculative, anti-empirical, prone to hasty generalizations, collectivist, dogmatic and intolerant."TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-14986842380235344232015-09-20T19:06:56.532-07:002015-09-20T19:06:56.532-07:00Curious the way echoes of the loud silence of the ...Curious the way echoes of the loud silence of the old factories (and camps), and traces of the old metal, the iron that was once thought to be a dietary essential, return now to fortify the renascent xenophobic aryan warrior blood, every little hatfield and mccoy clan-hollow atavistic nationalism trans-substantiating the new medieval ideology of this swamped and sinking at new low moral tide fortress europe.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-56302571537388200172015-09-20T10:57:02.348-07:002015-09-20T10:57:02.348-07:00Borders are just imaginary lines drawn on the eart...Borders are just imaginary lines drawn on the earth. But cross one while trying to escape a disaster not of your own making and you suddenly find yourself a political outcast, a non-person in a no-where place, “unwelcome and unwanted”. Compassion might be there for the first few days, for the first few thousand stateless persons, but when it cuts into profits and begins to erode the power base, that's when the real world drops the razor-wire curtain.Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-12976875556348607262015-09-20T03:10:02.659-07:002015-09-20T03:10:02.659-07:00And so every Polis shuts its gate.
These particul...And so every Polis shuts its gate.<br /><br />These particular fields of our grand failure of compassion are rank with historical and political significance. Something sour and vicious is returning to the old ravaged grounds.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-37385208290468847882015-09-19T16:49:44.009-07:002015-09-19T16:49:44.009-07:00I am amazed at the too many words that are related...I am amazed at the too many words that are related with the word "political"<br />politically, adverb<br />antipolitical, adjective<br />antipolitically, adverb<br />nonpolitical, adjective<br />nonpolitically, adverb<br />overpolitical, adjective<br />overpolitically, adverb<br />prepolitical, adjective<br />prepolitically, adverb<br />pseudopolitical, adjective<br />quasi-political, adjective<br />quasi-politically, adverb<br />subpolitical, adjective<br />subpolitically, adverb<br />unpolitical, adjective<br />unpolitically, adverb<br />Sandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15053707892868584990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-48361053811632080562015-09-19T15:19:05.109-07:002015-09-19T15:19:05.109-07:00European Migrant Crisis: Caught between Croatia an...<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M-C0PJlCYg" rel="nofollow">European Migrant Crisis: Caught between Croatia and Hungary: Channel 4 News, 18 September 2015</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QauMAWtDxoM" rel="nofollow">Refugee crisis: Riot police use pepper spray at Slovenia border, 19 September 2015</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-52418328009632186252015-09-19T14:45:59.324-07:002015-09-19T14:45:59.324-07:00#Turkey: Alameddin, a 13-year-old Syrian boy plays...#Turkey: Alameddin, a 13-year-old Syrian boy plays the violin in front of a police barricade near Edirne.<br />............<br />This is really terrible..<br />Kos, Rodos, Lesvos, Farmakonisi, Symi, Samos, Leros... Refugees arriving in Pireus, only to go to Lavrion or Sindos....L'Enfant de la Haute Merhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17122358316297267842noreply@blogger.com