ADDIS TIBEB

One of the poetry masterpieces that are remarkable in Ethiopian literature is poet-laureate Tsegaye Gebremedhin’s “Esat Woy Abeba”, meaning “Fire or Flower”.

This anthology in which great poetry pieces are included is considered classical by literature professionals. For the acumen and literary quality of the poems, an Ethiopian poetry style called “ye Tegaye Bet” (Tsegaye’s metre) is derived from them.

On the occasion organized to commemorate Tsegaye’s life and works, a fellow-poet and editor-in-chief of the weekly Amharic newspaper Addis Admas, Nebiy Mekonen, has presented a brief literary analysis of the poems in “Esat Woy Abeba”. It was with the supposition that most people don’t actually know what the distinctions of Tsegaye’s works are that Nebiy Mekonen and other next veteran fellow friends prepared the analysis.

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