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Happy Mother's Day 2019

9/5/2019

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Μητρική Στοργή, 1889, Γεώργιος Ιακωβίδης (Georgios Jakobides)
Mother's Day can be an opportunity to use Greek in creative ways in class. Apart from creating cards with brief messages in Greek for beloved women in our students' lives, we can explore how the theme of maternal bond is presented through literature and art.

Here are two examples where the themes of maternal affection and love are interestingly presented through the perspective of two males, a male Greek painter, Georgios Jakobides and a male Greek prosaist and poet, Georgios Vizyenos.

For more art and craft ideas for Mother's Day, you can visit the following sites: here and here
For the theme of 'motherhood' in art and literature, you can visit the following site: here
Η μητέρα, Γεώργιος Βιζυηνός

Πώς να πειράξω τη μητέρα
να κάμω εγώ να λυπηθεί,
που όλη νύχτα κι όλη μέρα
για το καλό μου προσπαθεί;

Πώς ν' αρνηθώ ή ν ' αναβάλω
ό,τι ορίζει κι απαιτεί,
αφού στη γη δεν έχω άλλο
κανένα φίλο σαν αυτή;

Αυτή στα στήθη τα γλυκά της
με είχε βρέφος απαλό,
με κάθιζε στα γόνατά της
και μ' έμαθε να ομιλώ.

Αυτή με τρέφει και με ντύνει
όλο το χρόνο που γυρνά,
και δίπλα στη μικρή μου κλίνη,
σαν αρρωστήσω ξαγρυπνά.

Αυτή σαν πέσω και χτυπήσω
φιλά να γειάνει την πληγή.
Αυτή, τι πρέπει να αφήσω
και τι να κάμω μ' οδηγεί.

Πώς το λοιπόν τέτοια μητέρα
να κάμω εγώ να λυπηθεί,
που όλη νύχτα κι όλη μέρα
για το καλό μου προσπαθεί;



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