Analysis Of Diaries Of Exile By Yannis Ritsos

In order to embark on my trip to Greece, I must make some preparations beforehand. These points will help make sure everything runs smoothly so I don’t encounter many problems. Some of the most basic things I need to do include: buying my 2-way plane ticket from Michigan to Greece, getting a passport, creating a rough plan about day-to-day activities, book hotels, pack, and inform friends and family about my trip. Outlining my vacation with these simple tasks will help to guide the trip. This will add order which will reduce time spent on work details. After the plain construction has been finished, fine-tuning is a step that needs to be taken. Overlooking these components is easy; therefore, I consulted a travel agency to help arrange more of the vacation. First, they suggested
The book I choose to bring is called Diaries of Exile by Yannis Ritsos. Before reading, I always scan a brief summary of the book and author. Here is one from Archipelago Books, A nonprofit press devoted to contemporary & classic world literature, “Called “the greatest poet of our age” by Louis Aragon, Yannis Ritsos is a poet whose writing life is thoroughly entwined with the contemporary history of his homeland. Nowhere is this more apparent than in this volume, a series of diaries-in-poetry Ritsos wrote between 1948 and 1950, during Greece’s Civil War, while a political prisoner first on the island of Limnos and then at the infamous camp on the desert island Makronisos. Even in these darkest of times, Ritsos dedicated his days to poetry, trusting in writing and in art as collective endeavors capable of fighting oppression, of bringing people together across distance and time. These poems offer glimpses onto the daily routines of prison life, the quiet violence he and his fellow prisoners endure, the ebbs and flows of the prisoners’ sense of solidarity, and the struggle to maintain humanity through language”