the poem "Waiting for the Barbarians" by Constantine P. Cavafy

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The poem "Waiting for the Barbarians" by Constantine P. Cavafy is a seminal early 20th-century work that uses the anticipation of an external "barbarian" threat to explore themes of political decay, societal paralysis, and the search for meaning in a declining empire.

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