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A review by samyukta_24
All You Who Sleep Tonight by Vikram Seth
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.