What do you want?

What do they want - a collection of 24 Polish socialist and revolutionary poems, published in 1882 in Geneva. It was published by the magazine "Przedświt". It contained the first edition of the poem Red Banner by Bolesław Czerwieński.

Volume, characterized by a very varied level of poetry contained in it, was the first collection of socialist poetry in Polish literature. On the first plan, two issues emerged: the ethos of the individual revolution and the concept of collective hero. Regardless of which of the problems the authors were concerned with, the background of poetry became a battlefield, a class conflict on the historical background. The form of poems is most often straightforward, referring to the widely known species, often associated with the structure of the song. They are associated with various forms of folklore - folk, insurrection or prison. The Motto is Part III of Adam Mickiewicz's Forefathers' Episode: Now the brothers will hear the song better. Commonly used and even abused by the authors are satire, exaggeration, irony, contrast, parody. Patterns were derived from the radical works of Heinrich Heine, George Herwegh, or Percy Shelley. Songs are centered around the following topics: Bibliography

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