Discuss your favorite poems, poets, and poetry books - analysis, ideas, hidden meanings, random thoughts, etc.
6/11/2012 4:06:33 AM
theihtut
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Myanmar, a Southeast Asian country that was formerly knownas Burma, has been under military rule in one form or another since 1962, whenGeneral Ne Win staged a coup that toppled a civilian government. The currentjunta, formed in 1988, threw out the results of a democratic parliamentaryelection in 1990 that was overwhelmingly won by the party led by Daw Aung SanSuu Kyi, the winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize and the daughter of Aung San,one of the heroes of the nation’s independence from the British Empire in 1948.For 15 years, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest.
After years of stagnation, change is coming to Myanmar at arapid pace, though still on the military’s terms. Nonetheless, there is hopethat the country is veering away from authoritarianism and Soviet-styleeconomic management that has left the majority of the country’s 55 millionpeople in dire poverty.
Burma, which has a total area of 678,500 square kilometres(262,000 sq mi), is the largest country in mainland Southeast Asia, and the40th-largest in the world
Much of the country lies between the Tropic of Cancer andthe Equator. It lies in the monsoon region of Asia, with its coastal regionsreceiving over 5,000 mm (196.9 in) of rain annually.
The country's slow economic growth has contributed to thepreservation of much of its environment and ecosystems.
Human rights in Burma are a long-standing concern for theinternational community and human rights organizations. Members of the UnitedNations and major international human rights organizations have issued repeatedand consistent reports of widespread and systematic human rights violations inBurma.
Now about poetry of Myanmar...........!Inhis opening lines to a 1976 article on hidden meaning in poetry, Mya Ketu (penname of U Chan Mya, a former professor at the Mandalay Arts and ScienceUniversity) writes that as there are secret matters in life so too there aresecrecies in poetic literature. “However,” he goes on, “The secrets in poemsare unlike the secrets of hidden crimes; they are merely furtive.”
Mya Ketu either wasn’t thinking very hard or, more likely,was trying not to. There are innumerable examples from around the world ofpoets condemned for crossing the ambiguous line between furtivesecrecies andcriminal laws, from Ovid to Oscar Wilde, Marcos Ana to Vaclav Havel. Mya Ketuwas himself writing under a government which considered anything contrary toits economic and political program to be offensive, and must have known aboutbanned poems and authors.
In the three decades since, things have gone from bad toworse and the game of hide and seek between Myanmar’s writers and their censorshas continued.
Apparently, poets embed messages in seemingly innocuoustexts, as did poet Saw Wai:
he (or someone) deliberately wrote what roughly translatesas “Pow-er cra-zy Gene-ral Than Shwe” into the opening syllables to each lineof the short poem, although it is plausible that the magazine editordidn’tnotice the covert message in the rush to meet his deadline. That the piece waswritten for Valentine’s Day and was released in an entertainment weekly calledLove Journal only adds to its delicious irony.
Here you can find about MyanmarPoem ( theihtutwin.com.) great and awesome poetry I love poetry <3
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6/25/2012 4:23:55 AM
Jace vas
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Hello friend,
I have read your post about Myanmar Poetry. Its really very awesome poetry. I really like this poetry!
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