Word: lermontov
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...earthquake was the latest catastrophe for the Armenians, an ancient people who through the ages have been massacred, conquered and divided. Their home is a region of mountain ranges and fertile valleys, roughly the size of Maryland, lying in what the Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov called the "high Caucasian maze." Of the republic's 3.5 million people, 90% are Armenian...
...been wearing when he was arrested, was driven to the airport. There he encountered several reporters standing at the departure gate. "I'm leaving more in sorrow than anger," said Daniloff, who proceeded to recite a more angry than sorrowful poem by the 19th century Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov about the "land of masters, land of knaves" (see ESSAY...
...MIKHAIL LERMONTOV...
...month, that brought the world's two titans into open confrontation, that in the end, perhaps, prodded them to agree on the presummit summit. Yet to cap off those momentous political events, Daniloff, the center of the storm, reached back into art for a poem by Mikhail Lermontov written almost 150 years ago for another world and circumstance. Grant that it was more diplomatic of Daniloff to quote Lermontov's exasperation with Mother Russia than to express his own. Still, it is curious that one would articulate feelings about so immediate and politically charged an event by using a form...
...power poetry does have, however, is staying power. It outlives politics mainly because the language of poets outlives the language of politicians -- so effectively that Daniloff could recite Lermontov to the world last week, and the world could appear to have been waiting for those words. That eternity of language, reaching as far back as forward, is what politicians fear most about poetry, when they do fear it, and it can make a terrible enemy. Politics touches some people at particular times. Poetry calls to all people at all times. By its existence it demands generosity and expansiveness. "When power...