People by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

March 2nd, 2007

I love “People”, it conveys the subject of death free from sentimentality but with truth and dignity. The tone is as final as death itself, yet it isn’t depressive. It offers an alternative to the scramble to achieve something “meaningful” for posterity; it presents the world that we create as being enough.
Here’s the whole poem, […]