Bertolt Brecht

(10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956 / Augsburg)

poet Bertolt Brecht
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  • Isaac Shea (7/30/2018 7:34:00 PM)

    This poet is dead. of course he hasn't posted in the past 14 days. BTW, i am trying to do a english assignment about the poem song of the German Mother and this crappy website -which supplies all of Berthold Brecht's poems- doesn't have it! ? what a stupid website. thanks for helping me on my assignment

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  • Romesh singh (4/30/2018 9:58:00 PM)

    the crutches poem in hindi

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Not What Was Meant

When the Academy of Arts demanded freedom
Of artistic expression from narrow-minded bureaucrats
There was a howl and a clamour in its immediate vicinity
But roaring above everything
Came a deafening thunder of applause
From beyond the Sector boundary.
Freedom! it roared. Freedom for the artists!
Freedom all round! Freedom for all!
Freedom for the exploiters! Freedom for the warmongers!

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