- Source: Plava grobnica
Plava grobnica (Serbian Cyrillic: Плава гробница, lit. 'The Blue Tomb') is an ode written by Serbian poet Milutin Bojić during World War I. It is dedicated to the soldiers that were buried in the sea near Vido island, Greece. In his unforgettable poem, Bojić expressed the tragic fate of Serbia, whose army had passed through Montenegro and Albania to the Greek islands of Corfu and Vido, where over 5,000 Serbian soldiers were buried at sea.
Background
Bojić survived the exodus from Serbia and the desperation of Corfu, and yet in the end succumbed to tuberculosis in Salonika. "Our church bells toll the dead instead of the hours," Bojić wrote of seeing his comrades-at-arms dying around him. At the time of the Serbian retreat he had been working on an epic poem, Cain, in which he compared Bulgaria's attack on Serbia (that precipitated the retreat) to the biblical story of Cain and Abel. The poem was one of the few things he carried with him as he made the winter journey over the mountains. Upon arriving at the Adriatic only to see his fellow Serbs being thrown out to the sea for burial, he penned one of the most moving war poems of his generation -- Plava grobnica or The Blue Sea Tomb.
Plava grobnica
See also
Serbian Campaign of World War I
Serbian Museum of Corfu
Tamo daleko
References
External links
Dragan Nikolić recites the Ode to a Blue Sea Tomb on YouTube
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Penarikan Besar Serbia
- Plava grobnica
- Great Retreat (Serbia)
- Vido
- Corfu
- Dušan Jezdić
- List of Serb patriotic songs
- Milutin Bojić
- Mihovil Logar
- 392nd (Croatian) Infantry Division
