‘Poets give vision to nations’
Ukranian revolutionary poet Lesya Ukrainka remembered
ISLAMABAD:
Nations are formed in the imagination and vision of poets before appearing on the map of the world, said National Heritage and Culture Parliamentary Secretary Ghazala Saifi on Thursday.
“It is an immense pleasure for me to speak on poetry and poets and especially to speak on such a globally acknowledged poetic figure like Lesya Ukrainka,” she said at an event hosted by the Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) and the Embassy of Ukraine in Islamabad on the 150th birth anniversary of Lesya Ukrainka.
The poems and plays of Ukrainka are associated with her belief in her country s freedom and independence.