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But we could cite a very large number of other names in other languages." In an explicit or formal way, for example, the following poets were committed to communism: in Turkey, Nazim Hikmet in Chile, Pablo Neruda in Spain, Rafael Alberti, in Italy, Edoardo Sanguineti in Greece, Yannis Ritsos in China, Ai Qing in Palestine, Mahmoud Darwish in Peru, César Vallejo and in Germany, the shining example is above all Bertolt Brecht. The French philosopher Alain Badiou maps a global tradition of revolutionary and communist poets in his book The Age of the Poets (2014), where he says: "In the last century, some truly great poets, in almost all languages on earth, have been communists. As he declares in his famous poem called "Dhumketu" (The Comet): "I come in every era/ I come again and again/ Now I've come for the great Revolution" (all translations in this piece are mine). For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel.īut I have argued elsewhere that Nazrul is more than a rebel poet that he is, more significantly, a revolutionary poet by his own admission-one who repeatedly mobilises the new idiom of revolution in his work.