Sketchy’s note on the poet Zbigniew Herbert
Polish Poet Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998) Master of Irony – in the wake of romanticism
It’s good what happened
it’s good what’s going to happen
even what’s happening right now
it’s okay.
Fragment poem, title Maturity
by Zbigniew Herbert,
from Selected Poems,
translated by Czeslaw Milosz
Pinguin Books, 1968.
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Let’s put these positive words in the excat opposite straight in contrary meaning. Especially with the war in Ukraine in mind, Russia destroying the country and drones bombing the demons in Kremlin Moscow.
It’s bad what happened
it’s ugly and mean what’s going to happen
even what’s happening right now it’s fucking cruel and terrible.
With my sincere excuse to the poet for screwing up his words.