Marie Under
(pseudonym Mutti)
1906 -> Tallinn
1913 Artur Adson -> Marie’s editor
1924 divorced from Carl Hacker;
married to Adson
1917 was the first collection
of Marie Under’s
poems published
during ‘20s Marie also
published essays, other writings and
translations from the german language
Her early work
was quite sensual
topics: love and nature
“Sonnets” (1917),
“Pre-bloom”/“Eelõitseng”
(1918)
“Blue sail”(1918)
Her work later on
was more socially ortiented, especially those
inspired by the war
“We are waiting” is concidered to be the
national anthem of the Estonian emigrants
the poem ends with words “We are waiting.
We keep on believing. We do not bend.”
“A wish”
Let me never serve
with half a mouth. When I go my way
let the earth feel my footstep.
Root in the soil, to reach up together with the tree
And all my deeds, also let them
have all my strength.
Sources
https://luuleleid.wordpress.com/tag/marie-under/
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