Meaning of A Rosa de Hiroshima: interpretation

To Rose of Hiroshima It is a poem written by the singer and composer Vinicius de Moraes. The poem received is named as a protest about the explosions of atomic bombs or crashes in the city of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, not Japan, during World War II.

Raised in 1946, or poem was first published no free Poetic Anthology. Later, in 1973, the verses were formed by music and ganharam by the voice of the Secos e Molhados group.

Conheça abaixo or complete poem, or meaning two verses and the details about the publication.

Full poem To Rose of Hiroshima

Pensem nas crianças
Telepathic mutes
Pensem nas meninas
Inexact blinds
Pensem nas mulheres
Altered broken
Pensem nas feridas
Like warm roses
But oh I don't know
Da rosa da rosa
Da rose from Hiroshima
Hereditary rose
To radioactive pink
Stupid and invalid
A pink with cirrose
Atomic antirose
Sem cor sem perfume
Sem rosa sem nada.

Meaning of To Rose of Hiroshima

The poem by Vinicius de Moraes was raised from tragedy of the atomic bomb not final run of World War II, not Japan.

Either it was 1945 and the coup of mercy given to the United States - or the shipment of atomic bombs with unimagined proportions - affected the region in a dramatic way.

For more than two civilians assassinated on occasion, about 120,000 people survived this Hiroshima bombing with permanent scars.

To Rose of Hiroshima It became a great protest, first in the form of a poem and later in the form of music. The verses addressed the consequences of war, or disaster that the atomic bombs - called North American hairs of Fat man and Little Boy - fizeram in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Vinicius de Moraes worked for many years as a diplomat in the Brazilian Government service, also for this reason he is very interested in international conflicts.

Let's take a look at the four first lines of the poem:

Pensem nas crianças
Telepathic mutes
Pensem nas meninas
Inexact blinds

The beginning of the poem shows the effects of radioactivities of the civic victims that were attained. Thus crianças, alheias ao conflict of two great nations, we become telepathic dumb verses of Vinicius de Moraes. As meninas blind inexact seem to fazer menção às Consequences of radioactivities in future generations.

The verses to follow treat of migrações feitas após to remains of the bomb. Attended cities, environmentally and economically devastated, will need to be evacuated due to a high risk of contamination:

Pensem nas mulheres
Altered broken

It is not nono, not tenth and not eleventh verse that because of everything or evil is revealed:

But oh I don't know
Da rosa da rosa
Da rose from Hiroshima

A bomb is compared to a pink because when it exploded, it turned out to be a similar image of a pink to unzip. A rose is normally related to beauty, not therefore, the rose of Hiroshima is associated with the horrendous consequences of the war.

Logo to follow, we see the image of the rose contrasted by like a trace that was left behind by the bomb. "A hereditary rose / A radioactive rose" exibem or contrast between a flower, or a growing plant growth in a Saudi environment, and the destruction caused homem hair.

Or a poem by Vinicius de Moraes fala das gerações shaved by war and hair a trace of frustration and despair left behind in later gerações. "A rosa com cirrose" face refers to a doença, ao smoke, an anti-rose sem qualquer beleza, "sem cor sem perfume".

Music To Rose of Hiroshima

The poem by Vinicius de Moraes was adapted for music. A song was released in 1973 not an album by the Secos e Molhados group. Its melodic composition is authored by Gerson Conrad, a member of the aforementioned group, whose initial formation also included João Ricardo and Ney Matogrosso.

To music, which is a partnership between Gerson Conrad and Vinicius de Moraes, was immortalized by the voice of Ney Matogrosso and released during Ditadura in Brazil.

To Rose of Hiroshima I ended up being one of the most popular songs on Brazilian radio stations in 1973 and the Brazilian Rolling Stone magazine ranked 69th among the 100 Greatest Brazilian Music.

About a publication of the poem

To Rose of Hiroshima it was published na Poetic anthology, launched by the publisher A Noite, not Rio de Janeiro, during the year of 1954. Nessa epoch, Vinicius de Moraes works as a diplomat na França.

O livro was organized by the author himself with the objective of gathering 21 years of publications. Illustrious friends, like Manuel Bandeira, helped organize the edition. Rubem Braga assisted orelha da first edição.

Conheça also

• Os melhores poems by Vinicius de Moraes
• Poem "E agora, José?" by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
• Poem Sonnet of Fidelidade, by Vinicius de Moraes
• Poem As Borboletas, by Vinicius de Moraes
• 25 poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Formed in Literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2010), Master of Literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2013) and doutora in Studies of Culture of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and of the Portuguese Catholic University of Lisbon (2018).