English Club tv have recently been showing a brilliant TV series that was first made for the BBC. In the program the present explores key events, figures and even inventions.
It has been great and English Club really deserve credit for finding a show that has completely got me hooked.
In this program one of the things that had really struck me was the influence of poets and authors upon the language. To some degree it is no suprise that these widely read peices of litterature would indeed affect the language spoken but the extent was really suprising.
I was reminded of Taras Shevchenko the famous Ukrainian poet. He has been a key figure in Ukrainian Nationalism for a long time and in no small part due to his demonstration that Ukrainian was a beautiful language that could be used to write poetry.
Poetry can really be a powerful thing.
