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This month sees two literary anniversaries connected with the great Czech
romantic poet, Karel Hynek Macha, who was born 195 years ago this month
and died in November 1836, just 26 years later. So we'll start with the
opening lines of his very well known lyrical epic of love and death Maj
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Current Affairs The 4th 'Poetry Day' gets underway in the Czech Republic
November 16th marks 'Poetry Day' in the Czech Republic, held on the
anniversary of the birth in 1810 of the great Czech Romantic poet, Karel
Hynek Macha. This year, it's the 4th time the 'Poetry Day' is being held,
and as we hear from Alena Skodova, it has been expanding with each new
year:
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Current AffairsMay Day - the day of love
These days, May 1st is a time of love. In smaller towns and villages people will put up a Maypole, in the evening they'll light bonfires and young couples will dance and flirt and jump over the flames in a sort of spring love ritual. Here in Prague couples of all ages will stroll through Petrin Hill - a place where lovers have walked for centuries. People who seek love - or those who are lucky enough to have found it - often lay a spring flower at the statue of the 19th century poet Karel Hynek Macha, who has become a patron of lovers and whose famous love poem every Czech can recite by heart.
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