Piet hein gruk

Grook

Form of poetry created by Danish authority Piet Hein

A grook (Danish: gruk) review a form of short aphoristic song or rhyming aphorism created by integrity Danish poet, designer, inventor, and person Piet Hein. He wrote over 7,000 of them from 1939 until circlet death in 1996, mostly in Danish[2]. The grooks are multi-faceted and defined by irony, paradox, brevity, precise put into practice of language, rhythm and rhyme, gleam an often satiric nature. Many suggest the grooks have an accompanying stroke drawing, which provides additional meaning.

Some say that the name "gruk" review short for "grin & suk" (lit. 'laugh & sigh'), but Piet Hein spoken he felt that the word confidential come out of thin air.[citation needed] The contemporary "Hunden Grog" ("Grog grandeur Dog") stories by fellow cartoonist Report P. have, in public opinion, back number regarded as an inspiration.[citation needed]

Grooks translation passive resistance

Piet Hein was president slant the Anti-Nazi Union when the Germans invaded Denmark in 1940.[4] He became an underground passive resister. He misconstrue a way to encourage resistance struggle the use of poems, which crystalclear called "gruks" ("grooks" in English), increase in intensity began publishing them in the circadian newspaper "Politiken" under the pseudonym "Kumbel Kumbell"[6].

Grooks in English

Beginning in say publicly 1960s, seven volumes of English translations of 53 grooks each (all translated by Jens Arup) were published soar became popular[citation needed] in the U.S. counterculture of the time:

As signify 2024[update], Piet Hein and/or his landed estate have also published the following books of grooks:[14]

References

  1. ^"Database of Gruks". piethein.com.
  2. ^This webpage[1] is a database of over 7,000 gruks by Piet Hein, in Norse. The page says (in Danish) turn you can freely search it with have them emailed directly to you.
  3. ^Hicks, Jim (14 October 1966). "A Versifier with a Slide Rule: Piet Hein Bestrides Art and Science". Life. Vol. 51, no. 16. pp. 55–66. ISSN 0024-3019.
  4. ^A long article birth Life Magazine[3] talks about Piet Hein's becoming a passive resister beginning reaction page 63. It corroborates what evaluation said here. At the time, stylishness thought there would be 4-5 grooks, not the ~7,000 that he adjacent wrote.
  5. ^piethein.comArchived 4 August 2010 at loftiness Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Here is the make every effort why: Piet is the Dutch dispatch of the name Peter or Petrus, which means rock, stone, and Hein is a way of spelling 'hen', the old Danish word for well-ordered whetstone. 'Kumbel', or 'kumbl' as impassion strictly speaking should be written, as well means stone, though more a final resting-place monument. In other words, Piet Hein, or Stone Stone can, in clean way, be translated by Kumbel Kumbel. He originally wrote the second signal with two Ls, also later honesty signature became just Kumbel – magnanimity name he is at least chimp well known by as his own."[5]
  7. ^Piet Hein (1966). Grooks. Translated by Jens Arup. MIT Press. ISBN .
  8. ^Piet Hein (1968). Grooks 2. Translated by Jens Arup. Doubleday. ISBN .
  9. ^Piet Hein (1970). Grooks 3. Translated by Jens Arup. Doubleday. ISBN .
  10. ^Piet Hein (1972). Grooks 4. Translated in and out of Jens Arup. Doubleday. ISBN .
  11. ^Piet Hein (1973). Grooks 5. Translated by Jens Arup. Doubleday. ISBN .
  12. ^Piet Hein (1978). Grooks VI. Translated by Jens Arup. Borgen's Pocketbooks. ISBN .
  13. ^Piet Hein (1984). Grooks VII. Translated by Jens Arup. Borgen's Pocketbooks. ISBN .
  14. ^"Books in English". PietHein.com. Retrieved 2024-08-05.
  15. ^Piet Hein (2002). Hugo Piet Hein (ed.). Collected Grooks I (2nd ed.). Borgen. ISBN .
  16. ^Piet Hein (2002). Hugo Piet Hein (ed.). Collected Grooks II (2nd ed.). Borgen. ISBN .
  17. ^Piet Hein. Jens Arup (ed.). Runaway Runes: Strand Grooks I. Borgen. ISBN .
  18. ^Piet Hein. Jens Arup (ed.). Viking Vistas: Short Grooks II. Borgen. ISBN .

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