Pls, before using phrases like ›throw into the #dustbin of #history‹ or ›throw onto the #trashheap of history‹ — think twice.

Historically, #Nazis & #Stalinism frequently used the latter phrase when they talked about their intentions for the people they hunted:

They planed to ›throw them onto the trashheap of history‹.

For a reference, see the poem ›Trashheap‹ by #ErichFried in memory of the poet #OsipMandelstam who coined the term #Weltkultur (literally ›#WorldCulture‹).

https://bookshop.org/p/books/mandelstam-s-worlds-poetry-politics-and-identity-in-a-revolutionary-age-andrew-kahn/17961332?ean=9780198857938

Rightly appreciated as a 'poet's poet', Mandelstam has been habitually read as a repository of learned allusion. Yet as Seamus Heaney observed, his work is 'as firmly rooted in both an historical and cultural context as real as Joyce's Ulysses or Eliot's Waste Land.' Great lyric poets offer a cross-section of their times, and Mandelstam's poems represent the worlds of politics, history, art, and ideas about intimacy and creativity.

#osipmandelstam #literaryhistory

And into a pit, a warty darkness
Is where I'm slipping, to an ice-covered pump house,
And I stumble as I eat dead air, And rooks fly off in a fever--

And I cry after them, shouting
Into some frozen wooden box:
--I need a reader! A friend! A doctor!
Speak to me, on the barbed wire staircase.

- Osip Mandelstam

#osipmandelstam #Russia #poetry

Far from cowardice, the spineless mess
The wheel, the racked bones and the blood,
That snow foxes, glowing with primeval grace
Might light the dark nigh ahead.

#osipmandelstam #Russia #poetry