Poetry and Politics

We read some political poems in class, and they are supposed to form an opinion about war, or the government, or some political question. It would have probably affected me more, but in Hungary, there are thousands and thousands of them. We had wars, occupation, corruption, concentration camp, everything. Actually, there was one poet (Miklos Radnoty), who was a very popular poem until he was taken to concentration camp, where he died. But while he was there, he was writing poems about the experiences he had. Now that I think of it, this is more like a poem of place though... Though, he did form opinion the government we had at that time, who allowed all t he terrible things to happen. The poets back in Hungary couldn't have done this. For one, the government didn't let them publish, if it didn't support them. Also, poets were afraid. Especially when we had Russian government, anyone who even whispered a bad word, went to prison.