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About text: Salomėja Nėris - Diemedžiu žydėsiu (I Will Turn into the Absinth Flower)

The fourth book of poetry by S.Nėris, "I Will Turn into the Absinth Flower" rose her to the heights of craft. This is the last book of poetry of S.Nėris in independent Lithuania. For this selection the poetess was awarded the highest literary prize in Lithuania - the State award.

The most essential qualities of S.Nėris's verses are their lyricism, simplicity, lucidity, the alacrity of poetical word and melodic agility. Though her poetry seems simple, her versification is very ingenious, and sometimes achieve the utmost virtuosity.

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Salomėja Nėris is the most prominent poetess who formed during the years of independence (1918-1940), and reached the heights of the art. The pureness of emotion, the sheerness of form and melody really makes her resemble to a singing nightingale, though without special deepness of thoughts, but attractive by the candor of her heart. Still, the involvement of S.Nėris in the tenets of bolsheviks and her paying the tribute to communist propaganda stains her person and her works. Read more

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