Kanstancyja Bujło ( be, Канстанцыя Буйло) (1893–1986) was a

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poet and

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. Bujło's first publication in 1909 was ''Mound Flower'', edited by

Janka Kupała Yanka Kupala, also spelled Janka Kupała ( be, Янка Купала; – 28 June 1942), was the pen name of Ivan Daminikavič Lutsevič (), a Belarusian poet and writer. Biography Early life Kupala was born on July 7, 1882, in Viazynka, a ...

. The main themes of her poems, which often relied on

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, were on peasant life in Belarus before 1917, and

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heroism. One of her most notable poems was ''I Love Our Land''.

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