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samyukta_24's review against another edition
5.0
All you who sleep tonight
Far from the ones you love,
No hand to left or right,
And emptiness above –
Know that you aren’t alone
The whole world shares your tears,
Some for two nights or one,
And some for all their years.
This book evokes some very strong emotions. Three poems were particularly haunting to me – “Lithuania – Question and Answer”, “Work and freedom” which both talk about the atrocities inflicted by the Nazis from different perspectives – a Jewish woman and a commandant respectively. The third poem that was pretty hard hitting was “A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945, ", which is about the effect of the atom bomb that hit Hiroshima.
Far from the ones you love,
No hand to left or right,
And emptiness above –
Know that you aren’t alone
The whole world shares your tears,
Some for two nights or one,
And some for all their years.
This book evokes some very strong emotions. Three poems were particularly haunting to me – “Lithuania – Question and Answer”, “Work and freedom” which both talk about the atrocities inflicted by the Nazis from different perspectives – a Jewish woman and a commandant respectively. The third poem that was pretty hard hitting was “A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945, ", which is about the effect of the atom bomb that hit Hiroshima.
anubhabb's review against another edition
4.0
"Above all, to my heart I'm true.
It does not tell me what to do.
It beats, I live, it beats again.
For what? I wish I knew it knew."
It does not tell me what to do.
It beats, I live, it beats again.
For what? I wish I knew it knew."
shivanisawarkar's review against another edition
4.0
The more I read Vikram Seth's works, the more I fall in love with his writing. To put it simply, his poems are beautiful. He has a wonderful way with writing verses, and an ability of evoking an emotional response even when the topic of some of his poems might seem too simple. The two poems that particularly stood out for me were, the titular All You Who Sleep Tonight , and Heart .
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