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LEBAC MI SUTRA NEMOJTE POSLATI…(0vde)
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KRVAVA BAJKA Bilo je to u nekoj zemlji seljaka Iste su godine Bilo je to u nekoj zemlji seljaka A pedeset i pet minuta Misli su im bile pune Bilo je to u nekoj zemlji seljaka Dečaka redovi celi Drugova redovi celi Desanka Maksimović
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A BLOODY FAIRYTALEIt was in a land of peasants They were all born It was in a land of peasants And fifty-five minutes Their thoughts were full It was in a land of peasants Whole rows of boys Whole lines of friends Desanka Maksimovich________
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КРОВОВАя СКАЗКА(отрывок)Это случилось в одном государстве балканском — Все они были ровесники, . . . Это случилось в одном государстве балканском — За руки взявшись, Десанка Максимович____
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“We are Serbian children! Shoot!”
The dramatic framework of the poem “A Bloody Fairytale” is the element that makes it an exceptional poem. In this case, the event is the not the usual death by accident, ill health or old age. This poem memorializes the deaths of seven thousands (7,000) of schoolchildren, who were selected, with incomprehensible malice, especially because they were children and their deaths would punctuate more fully the German call to end resistance. The only allusion to something of a military nature in the poem is the use of the word “cheta”. This word is usually used to describe a group of soldiers. With her line “a company of small ones”, referring to the children, Maksimovic makes a particularly ironic statement: the innocent children are being punished in a manner so brutal it is not fit for even the soldiers of the enemy.
She compares the children’s death to that of a martyr and she respectfully refrains from mentioning those responsible for their death, as it would ruin the forlorn and grief-stricken tone of the poem with anger. Rage will not bring the little martyrs back. All that remains is to immortalize them with an appropriate lamentation.
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From the Sarah’s work:
“Poetry As Memory”, 1999.
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Boli li smrt?
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Priredio: Bora*S
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