Lyrical Poetry as a Factor in the Formation of Literary Cultures
Lyrical Poetry as a Factor in the Formation of Literary Cultures

Summary/Abstract: Why speak about poetry at a dramatic time like this, that makes us act, fight for and against, protect and protest? Inter arma silent musae says the Latin poet, but European history shows the opposite: inter arma non silent musae, as the people of Ukraine are proving to us today. In Estonia, in the land of the Singing Revolution, we were beginning to believe even more that when the muses are heard, the cannons are silent. Thus, lyrical poetry has always been an effective non-violent weapon of resistance. It has immense power to bring people together and make them into a nation. Significantly, the idea of the Estonian state was first given word in the poetry of Lydia Koidula and Juhan Liiv

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