A hAon Móide a hAon...

Publication Instance Details #888

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
No	No	No	No	No	No

Details

Human Rights Issues	Genocide HR & Weapons of Mass Destruction (incl. nuclear) Poverty/Deprivation/Lack of Sustenance War HR & Natural Disasters
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Spanish Civil War War: Second World War Genocide: Holocaust
Languages	Irish
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	The speaker of this short lyric poem describes how 'logic' has defeated or destroyed poetry itself. He mentions how words and images were once free and exuberant, like the wind itself. However, logic has come and spoiled this. He mentions some examples: Hiroshima (World War II); Guernica (Spanish civil war); Auschwitz (Holocaust); and a famine in Calcutta. This is alongside 'theories' and 'principles' which are the 'logic' which has ruined poetry. Perhaps this is a commentary on how the logic of science and warmongering have led to some of the greatest humanitarian disasters of recent years and destroyed poetry, in the sense that humanity has been lost its appreciation for the arts and beauty.