100 words !

nazim hikmet wrote: “living is no laughing matter: you must live with a great seriousness like a squirrel for example—i mean without looking for something beyond and above living, i mean living must be your whole occupation.” explain, in at least one hundred words, how this quote relates to hikmet’s unique experiences and point of view.

Nazim Hikmet was a poet that was born in the Ottoman Empire. He studied in the University of Moscow and he worked in many journals and he wrote Communist propaganda activities. Because of that, he was arrested for radical and subversive activities.

He moved to the Soviet Union and continued to work for the Communist ideal.

His life story shows why he sustains a person should be only occupied with living. He had a difficult time in jail and he had to focus on survival so he could hang until the end of his prison time.

Nazim Hirkemat was a Turkish poet who lived in the XX century. He led a life full of oppression since he spent many years in prison for his communist and revolutionary ideas. He went to Russia to study and there, he  became a communist. His communist ideas  made him be in prison but he never felt miserable; he always fought for his ideals . This is the reason why in the excerpt from his poem " On Living" , Nazim Hirkemat's invites the reader to live for a cause. The point is to be engaged in doing serious things. Living means to be engaged with the present moment: to love and to fight for your ideals. While the poet was in prison, he wrote love poems and poems on other topics.