Who is Julian Tuwim

Julian Tuwim (13 September 1894 – 27 December 1953), known also under the pseudonym "Oldlen" as a lyricist, was a Polish poet, born in Łódź, then part of the Russian Partition. He was educated in Łódź and in Warsaw where he studied law and philosophy at Warsaw University. After Poland's return to independence in 1918, Tuwim co-founded the Skamander group of experimental poets with Antoni Słonimski and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. He was a major figure in Polish literature, admired also for his contribution to children's literature. He was a recipient of the prestigious Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature in 1935.

Life and work

Tuwim was born into a family of assimilated Jews. The surname comes from the Hebrew tovim (טובים‎) meaning "good on...
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Julian Tuwim Poems

• The Common Man
  When plastered billboards scream with slogans
  'fight for your country, go to battle'
  When media's print assults your senses,
  'Support our leaders' shrieks and rattles... ...
• The Locomotive
  A big locomotive has pulled into town,
  Heavy, humungus, with sweat rolling down,
  A plump jumbo olive.
  Huffing and puffing and panting and smelly, ...
• The Saturday Night Song
  Hooray, the echo will resound throughout the wide square,
  When a sincere drunkard's song emanates from my throat;
  Tonight I'll be lapping up a smoky pub's atmosphere,
  I'm bloody well going to get sloshed, buzzed and somewhere float. ...
• Grass
  Grass, grass up to my knees!
  Grow up to the sky
  So that there won't seem to be
  Any you or I ...
• The Dancing Socrates
  I roast in the sun, old wretch...
  I lie, and yawn, I stretch.
  Old am I, but full of pep:
  When I take a slug from the cup...

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Comments about Julian Tuwim

• Miogrod: if you didn't know. julian tuwim who is a polish poet is known for writing poems for little kids. not a lot of people know he wrote a song/poem called "całujcie mnie wszyscy w dupę (you all can kiss my ass)" and i think you should know about it.
• Annbss_makes: was doing kidlit illustration with my class tonight, i did a opening pic to a popular kids poem rzepka by julian tuwim
• Cutterstreeby: erik harper klass from polish poets in beds with girls, and other true stories (part 1) julian tuwim . . . it is the whole structure of language that psychoanalytic experience discovers in the unconscious. —jacques lacan,
• Wangontheweb: very excited to share the work of the tremendous polish poet, julian tuwim. most of these poems appear here in english translation for the first time. my thanks to the tuwim foundation for their kind and generous support of this project.
• Thespiderlily: christ of the city by julian tuwim (1920)

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