How are we connected with our parents,relatives,and homeland?
Explain with reference to the poem 'the west wind'.
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One poem a day is what Tuvia Ruebner recommends. Upon the publication of "New Selected Poems 1957-2005," a selection from the 12 books of poetry he published between 1957 and 2005 (including some new works as well), he notes that a poem - regardless of its length - should have a page of its own and that it is enough for a person to read one like it a day, in order to conduct a dialogue with the text. Perhaps a surprising comment from someone who has published 12 books of poetry in Hebrew.
About a year ago, when Rafi Weichert, from Keshev, a publishing house of poetry, suggested to Ruebner that he put together a selection of his work to mark his 80th birthday, the poet hesitated. "I had no desire to publish a selection," he recalls. "I am at a far remove from my poems," he explains in his home in Kibbutz Merhavia, now being renovated. "If Weichert had not persuaded me and taken on himself the hard work, the book would not have been published. I have not yet opened it and I don't think I will in the near future. But thanks to the book's publication, a few new poems that aren't too bad came to me, which were written in a freer tone than in the past."
Ruebner is 81. His hearing is getting worse because of a bad nerve and he is getting ready to undergo his third catheterization (he had a heart attack during the previous one). In his long and far-from-easy life, he endured terrible deaths of the five people who were closest to him: his parents, his younger sister, his first wife and his youngest son. However, Ruebner neither looks nor behaves like a person who has been slowed down by any of this. Every morning he works in his kibbutz studio, on his computer, until lunch. He is far from having stopped writing. "The poems used to be shrunk," he says, "as though I wrote with the palm of my hand covering my mouth, whereas today I write without that covering."
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