WE ARE CHILDREN! SHOOT!

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KRVAVA BAJKA Bilo je to u nekoj zemlji seljaka na brdovitom Balkanu, umrla je mučeničkom smrću četa đaka u jednom danu. Iste su godine svi bili rođeni, isto su im tekli školski dani, na iste svečanosti zajedno su vođeni, od istih bolesti svi pelcovani i svi umrli u istom danu. Bilo je to u nekoj zemlji seljaka na brdovitom Balkanu umrla je junačkom smrću četa đaka u istom danu. A pedeset i pet minuta pre smrtnog trena sedela je u đačkoj klupi četa malena i iste zadatke teške rešavala: koliko može putnik ako ide peške… i tako redom. Misli su im bile pune i po sveskama u školskoj torbi besmislenih ležalo je bezbroj petica i dvojki. Pregršt istih snova i istih tajni rodoljubivih i ljubavnih stiskali su u dnu džepova. I činilo se svakom da će dugo da će vrlo dugo trčati ispod svoda plava dok sve zadatke na svetu ne posvršava. Bilo je to u nekoj zemlji seljaka na brdovitom Balkanu umrla je junačkom smrću četa đaka u istom danu. Dečaka redovi celi uzeli se za ruke i sa školskog zadnjeg časa na streljanje pošli mirno kao da smrt nije ništa. Drugova redovi celi istog časa se uzneli do večnog boravišta. Desanka Maksimović

A BLOODY FAIRYTALE It was in a land of peasants in the mountainous Balkans, a company of schoolchildren died a martyr’s death in one day. They were all born in the same year their school days passed the same taken together to the same festivities, vaccinated against the same diseases, and all died on the same day. It was in a land of peasants in the mountainous Balkans, a company schoolchildren died a martyr’s death in one day. And fifty-five minutes before the moment of death the company of small ones sat at its desk and the same difficult assignments they solved: how far can a traveler go if he is on foot… and so on. Their thoughts were full of the same numbers and throughout their notebooks in school bags lay an infinite number of senseless A’s and F’s. A pile of the same dreams and the same secrets patriotic and romantic they clenched in the depths of their pockets. and it seemed to everyone that they will run for a long time beneath the blue arch until all the assignments in the world are completed. It was in a land of peasants in the mountainous Balkans, a company of small ones died a martyr’s death in one day. Whole rows of boys took each other by the hand and from their last class went peacefully to slaughter as if death was nothing. Whole lines of friends ascended at the same moment to their eternal residence. Desanka Maksimovich ________ Translation from Serbian language: © 1999 Sarah O’Keeffe E-mail: <sqokeeffe@yahoo.com>

КРОВОВАя СКАЗКА (отрывок) Это случилось в одном государстве балканском — в горном, крестьянском. Горькое там приключилось злосчастье с группой ребят — целым классом пали они в одночасье смертью героев. Все они были ровесники, все — одногодки. Вместе учились и вместе играли, хором стихи наизусть повторяли. Вместе ходили к врачам на прививки. Все у них общее было: уроки, болезни, привычки. Вместе они и погибли. . . . Это случилось в одном государстве балканском — в горном, крестьянском. Горькое там приключилось злосчастье с группой ребят — целым классом пали они в одночасье смертью героев. За руки взявшись, пошли они на смерть рядами. Самые слабые дети и те не рыдали. После уроков, сложив аккуратно тетрадки, шли на расстрел они поступью твердой в полном порядке, прямо и гордо. За руки взявшись прямо под пули Эти ребята навстречу бессмертью шагнули. Десанка Максимович ____ «Зеленый витязь». — Москва. Детская литература, 1977.

“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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