hulit1-10, Exercise 1: Tracing a thread

Model answer (thread: the poet as national voice; check the details):

Chapter 2: Kolcsey's Himnusz gives the nation a prayer-poem, setting the pattern of the poet speaking for the people.
Chapter 3: Petofi in 1848 becomes the revolutionary voice, and the legend of his death in 1849 fixes his role.
Chapter 5: Ady and the Nyugat generation take the role into the modern age, with a more critical and personal voice.
Chapter 6: Jozsef and Radnoti show the cost of the role in a century of catastrophe, one in poverty and isolation, the other in forced labour and death.

Conclusion: the poet as national voice is a role that Hungarian poets inherited, took up, questioned and paid for. Each chapter adds a different attitude to it: pride, revolution, doubt, tragedy.

A translation answer would trace Chapters 3, 8 and 9 and the translators named there.