Grooks 3
by Piet Hein
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Read in December, 2007
Few writers can convey the amount of significance Piet Hein does in his "grooks". Wry and wise, sly and scathing; they would have to be in the environment these were written in. After the Danes fell to Nazi Germany in 1940, Hein's words struck back against the oppression and dreary reality under their iron presence.
As times rhyme as they are want to do, the grook still is a source of light in the written word. Characterized by irony, paradox, brevity, precise use of language, soph...more
As times rhyme as they are want to do, the grook still is a source of light in the written word. Characterized by irony, paradox, brevity, precise use of language, soph...more
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