GOOGLE has released its latest Doodle celebrating the most famous work of the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz.
Mickiewicz, whose work includes ballads and romances, wrote with a deep connection to his political beliefs and today his most famous poem is honoured for users across the UK, Iceland, Poland, Belarus and Lithuania.
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Who was Adam Mickiewicz?
Adam Mickiewicz is a Polish poet, dramatist and political activist
He was born on Christmas Eve in 1799 in Zavosse, Belarus, and died on November 26, 1855.
He has often been considered his country’s greatest poet and has been dubbed a Slavic bard.
But he is also regarded as holding a central position in Polish literature and much loved in Lithuania and Belarus.
A statement says: “Mickiewicz writes with great feeling, expressing his love and longing for all aspects of Polish life from the landscape to the food , to even the wildlife.
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Why is Google celebrating his poem Pan Tadeusz today?
On June 28, 1834, Mickiewicz's poem Pan Tadeusz was published, with the Doodle celebrating the 185th anniversary of the great work.
The poem is taught in many Polish schools and is “often considered one of the last great epic poems in European literature”.
Google describes the poem as a feud between two prominent families, complicated by the love between Tadeusz and a daughter of the rival family named Zosia.
A revolt against the local Russian garrison brings the families together, inspired by a shared passion to restore Poland to its former glory:
It has been adapted into TV and film.
What does his Doodle show?
Google depicted the poem, titled Pan Tadeusz as a “12-part saga”.
The 12 parts of the poem are shown including the farm, the castle, flirtation and the consultation.
The title has been translated as The Last Foray in Lithuania.
It ”captures the spirit of Poland at a time when much of its territory was partitioned between Russia, Prussia, and Austria”.
What is a Google Doodle?
In 1998, the search engine founders Larry and Sergey drew a stick figure behind the second 'o' of Google as a message that they were out of office at the Burning Man festival and with that, Google Doodles were born.
The company decided that they should decorate the logo to mark cultural moments and it soon became clear that users really enjoyed the change to the Google homepage.
In that same year, a turkey was added to Thanksgiving and two pumpkins appeared as the 'o's for Halloween the following year.
Now, there is a full team of doodlers, illustrators, graphic designers, animators and classically trained artists who help create what you see on those days.
Google kicked off 2019 with an animated Doodle of New Year's Eve celebrations.
On February 5, 2019, the Chinese New Year was celebrated with a hand animation transforming into a pig.
St Patrick's Day on March 17 was remembered with a Celtic Google Doodle.
And on March 21, Google Doodle used AI for the first time in a tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach.
The Doodle allowed users to create their own tune.
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