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GREEK POEM PREVEZA BY KARYOTAKIS READ BY G P SAVVIDIS

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PREVEZA by Kostas Karyotakis

Death is the crows clattering
on dark walls and roof-tiles;
death - those women who make love
as if they were peeling onions.

Death these grimy, insignificant streets
with their great, illustrious names,
the olive grove, in all directions the sea,
and even the sun - death amid deaths.

Death - that cop who wraps up
an "Insufficient" serving and weighs it;
death - these hyacinths on the balcony
and that teacher with the newspaper.

Base, Garrison, Platoon of Preveza.
On Sunday we'll hear the band.
I got a savings book from the bank,
first deposit - thirty drachmas.

Walking slowly on the wharf you say,
"Do I exist" and then, "You do not exist!"
The ship arrives, Raised flag.
Perhaps His Honor the Governor is coming.

If, among these people, just
one would die from disgust . . .
Silent, sad, decorous,
we'd all have fun at the funeral.

Kostas Karyotakis is a Greek poet influenced by the 19th-century French Symbolist poets. He born in Tripolis at 1896 and died in Preveza at 1928.
Kariotakis spent most of his lonely childhood in Crete. He read law at Athens and won a prize for poetry in 1920. After obtaining his degree he worked as a government clerk in Athens, where he developed a friendship with the young poet Maria Polidouri. Later he was transferred to Patrai and thence to Preveza, where he shot himself (July 20, 1928).

Karyotakis' two volumes of poetry show the influence of the New School of Poetry of Athens, founded in about 1880 by Kostis Palamas, which revolted against Katharevusa, the stilted and archaic official language of Greece, and against the emotionalism of the Romantics. His poetry also reveals the Symbolist influence in addition to the loneliness and despair of his childhood.

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  • ποσο λυπαμαι που βλεπω τα clips της παπαριζου να εχουν ακροαματικοτητα 50,000 και τον καρυωτακη και αλλους μεγαλους ποιητες που διαμορφωσαν τη φυσιογνωμια της νεοελληνικής και της παγκόσμιας λογοτεχνιας να εχουν τοσο μικρο αριθμο

  • Θα μας δοθεί το χάρισμα και η μοίρα να πάμε να πεθάνουμε μια νύχτα στο πράσινο ακρογιάλι της πατρίδας;

    Γλυκά θα κοιμηθούμε σαν παιδάκια γλυκά....

    Γλυκά θα κοιμηθούμε σαν παιδάκια που όλη τη μέρα έκλαψαν κι απόστασαν.

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  • @zamplou .Δε χρειαζεται να μπεις στα clips της Παπαριζου,ο καθενας τραβα την μοναχικη του πορεια χωρις να χρειαζεται να κοιταει δεξια και αριστερα.

  • orios

  • zamplou δεν υπαρχουν αυτα στη εποχη μας... δυστυχως

  • Ομως τα στήθια που τα ταράζει κάποιο θανάσιμο πάθος δεν θα γαληνέψουν...

    Γεια σου ΘΑΛΑΣΣΑ!!!

  • @golemschmolem

    Σ'ευχαριστώ για την αποστολή του βίντεο...

    αγαπημένος ποιητής ο Κ.Καρυωτάκης...

  • καρυοτακη αρχοντα της νυχτας...φοβερος τραγουδιστης ηταν...κι απο την πρεβεζα κιολας...μας κανεις περηφανους...μπ[ραβοο

  • αν ενδιαφερεσαι για κατι τετοιο ακομη στειλε μου μηνυμα

  • Και να σκεφτείς φίλτατε κύριε Καρυωτάκη μας ,οτι σήμερα πολλοί Ελληνες θα σκοτώνανε για να εχουνε μια θεση στο δημόσιο...τραγικη ειρωνια?

  • αναρωτιόμουν μήπως κάποιος απο εσάς γνωρίζει κάποιο στέκι,οπού πηγαίνουν άνθρωποι που ασχολούνται με την ποίηση και συζητούν ανταλλάσσουν απόψεις γενικα.ευχαριστώ πολυ

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