Writing Style
His work is written in the demotic and has well taken care of form and plasticity in the expression.It is characterized by hot lyric imagination and satirical disposal with interest for the modern person. His poetry, particularly, is characterized from intense “”, playful disposal and deep musical feeling that is combined excellently with the satyr, while is considered one of the mainer left wingers workers of language in Greece.Varnalis maintained his poetic but also human vigilance up to deep age. An example of his writing style is here from the poem ΟΙ ΜΟΙΡΑΙΟΙ.
Μες την υπόγεια την ταβέρνα,
μες σε καπνούς και σε βρισιές,
απάνου εστρίγγλιζε η λατέρνα
όλη η παρέα πίναμε ψές,
εψές, σαν όλα τα βραδάκια,
να πάνε κάτου τα φαρμάκια.
Ιn the underground tavern,
amidst the fog, amidst insults and yelling,
while the street organ was still screaming,
me and my friends were drinking yesterday,
yesterday, just like every other day,
struggling to accept our bitter fate.
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