Note to the August 16th edition published in
the Blog ART & ENVIRONMENT: “J’ai
une proposition” by Julio Enrique Correa, commemorating the Hiroshima’s and Nagasaki's 72nd nuclear bombs anniversary ending war
with Japan on August 15, 1945.
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Instead preventing use of violence, warfare and industrial by products spoiling the earth's atmosphere, US president Donald Trump -developing irresponsible clown-like attitudes- competes with North Korean dictator in exposing all inhabitants of the world to unstoppable global warming as well to nuclear holocaust conditioning measures.
Perhaps an art contribution may awaken him from a such a dangerous blindness or deaf. On such behalf its worthwhile to reproduce British actor Rupert Friend TV comments on an interview regarding his protagonist's ultimate intervention in "Homeland" (Season 6 finale, "horrors of war"), where he quotes a poem* from a 1st world war poet who suffered PTS: "I just think that the horrrors of war are still with us 100 years after this was written and it makes me incredibly sad...". Moreover, in case neither poetry nor Human fondness for friendship moves you a single atom, you may try at least to move your skeleton by listening to Eminem’s rap before going to bed at night: : Eminem Rips Donald Trump In BET Hip Hop Awards Freestyle Cypher
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud (1)
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest (2)
To children ardent(3) for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori.(4)
Thought to have been written between 8 October 1917 and March, 1918
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen (18 March
1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier, one of the
leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare, stood in stark contrast both to the public perception of war
at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets
such as Rupert Brooke . Among his best-known works – most of which were published
posthumously – figures "Dulce et Decorum est".
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Notes on Dulce et Decorum Est
DULCE ET
DECORUM EST - the first words of a Latin saying (taken from an ode by Horace).
The words were widely understood and often quoted at the start of the First
World War. They mean "It is sweet and right." The full saying ends
the poem: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - it is sweet and right to die
for your country. In other words, it is a wonderful and great honour to fight
and die for your country.
1. Cud -
normally the regurgitated grass that cows chew usually green and bubbling. Here
a similar looking material was issuing from the soldier's mouth
2.. High
zest - idealistic enthusiasm, keenly believing in the rightness of the
idea
3.
ardent - keen
4. Dulce
et decorum est pro patria mori
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El Dr. Julio E.
Correa edita el Blog ARTE y MEDIO AMBIENTE www.esicas.blogspot.com [ESICAS: Environmental Space Interactions with Culture, Art and
Science], at present it develops theoretical research projects]: Este blog está
dedicado a la investigación, educación y difusión del medio ambiente y su
relación con las Artes, las Ciencias y los patrimonios culturales tangibles e
intangibles. Dirección: Matheu 291 QUILMES (1878) Prov. Buenos Aires Argentina [jecorrea@retina.ar].
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