Het Woord is Dood/The Word is Dead - Aaron Dupont

Kouwenaar, Gerrit. "Het Woord Is Dood." Poery International. Em. Querido's Uitgeverij B.v. Amsterdam, 1 Jan. 1998. Web. 11 Sept. 2014. <http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poem/item/4331>.

© 1998, Gerrit Kouwenaar
From: helder maar grijzer. Gedichten 1978 - 1996
Publisher: Em. Querido's Uitgeverij b.v. Amsterdam
ISBN: 90 214 7257 0

This poem really spoke to me because it was written by a Dutch poet. I also really like the universal message he was trying to get across. I don't think he was really saying much much about his personal or national culture. I think the poem had a much more broad and universal theme. That theme being the written language is dying out and people need to make use of it more because language becomes much more clear when you write it down. Also I chose this essay because it was originally written in Dutch and I was able to read it how it was originally meant to be read. I found it interesting how the poem flowed much better and sounded much better when reading it in Dutch. That is why I was attracted to this poem.