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Bugbear

Gerrit Komrij 1944 (Winterswijk) – 2012 (Amsterdam)

Sonnet
Take poetry away from me
And I'm a mail repeater
A broken tachometer
A man without wand to be.

Pull away the masks of me
And I'm an official suiter
A graduated mooter
Seeking his marble cementery

A gaby who is trotting
On his way to the afterglow
Punish human love and so
All gabies should be rotting.

About this poem

Translation by Ludy Bührs of his Dutch poem "Schrikbeeld".

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Submitted by ludy_b on July 11, 2021

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABBA ABBB CDDC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 290
Words 58
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
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Gerrit Komrij

Gerrit Komrij was a famous Dutch poet, writer, translator, critic, polemicist and playwright. In 1993, he was awarded the P.C. Hooft Prize for his reflective prose. He was the Dutch National Poet Laureate from 2000 to 2004. Komrij was known for his virtuoso and colorful use of language and was a feared polemicist See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_Komrij more…

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