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Undoubtedly, literature has exercised a great and unavoidable influence in the life of human beings. Employing empowered language, it deals not only with subjective or external realities but also with internal interactions of man with nature and its socio-political scenarios . The objective vision of the life is best revealed in the shape of remembrance, retrospection , introspection, presage, flashback and awful experience and in this regards , poetry serves as a better platform in exploring those spaces in human psyche which is tinged with pain, suffering , mental anguish , would and trauma . This paper sets out to throw light on how Miroslav Holub's poetry , written before the historical Prague Spring (1968) , is charged with his anxiety , terror , societal disturbance , ethical lacuna , political unrest and traumatic vision . Though at that time , Holub's distinction as a scientist and a poet is not globally recognized or established , the present paper attempts to highlight how his drawing of social , political , and moral milieu of the-then Czechoslovakia through poetic mode, is the outcome of his traumatized self-knowledge and self-understanding. In his anthologies brought out before the famous Prague Spring including 'Day Duty' (1958), 'Achilles and The Tortoise' (1960), 'Primer'(1961), 'Go and Open the Door'(1962), 'The So-Called Heart' (1963), 'Totally Unsystematic Zoology' (1963), and 'Where the Blood Flows' (1963), he presents his traumatized poetic vision. His understanding of the world around him is portrayed with necessary and precise bitter irony, knife-like witticism, mentalization, historical association, scientific disciplines, self-infliction, and mental enactments. His dealing with confused alliance between men and communism, relationship between man and nature, difficult and drastic life in terror-struck political background, claustrophobic atmosphere, shattering of peace in life, different causes of distressing in mind--- brings out emotional and psychological trauma which Holub has experienced in life mainly before the great Prague Spring . This paper would hold up the notion , above all , that Holub's traumatized vision helps in enhancing his poetic creativity to its own unique way and gaining him a reputed place in English-speaking world .