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Grodek
also: Horodok, Гродек
A town in Galicia (now Horodok, western Ukraine) that gave the poem its title; the site of a major Austro-Russian battle in August–September 1914. Trakl served as a military pharmacist and witnessed the devastating aftermath, which became the direct occasion for the poem.
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- Grodek §1 Grodek
A town in Galicia (now Horodok, western Ukraine) where a major battle of the Eastern Front was fought in late August–September 1914; Trakl, serving as a military pharmacist, witnessed the horrific aftermath and wrote this poem in September 1914.
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