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"Babi Yar" By Yevgeny Yevtushenko: An Analysis
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Yevtushenko speaks in first person throughout the poem. This creates the tone of
him being in the shoes of the Jews. As he says in lines 63-64, "No Jewish blood
is mixed in mine, but let me be a Jew . . . " He writes the poem to evoke
compassion for the Jews and make others aware of their hardship ....
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....eligious beliefs. The poet refers to the
"pettiness" (line 11) of anti-Semitism as the cause of Dreyfus' imprisonment.
Anti-Semitism is his "betrayer" (line 12) when he is framed, and anti-Semitism
is his "judge" (line 12) when he is wrongly found guilty. Lines 13-14 claim that
even the fine and supposedly civilized women of society shun Dreyfus because he
is a Jew and fear him like they would fear an animal.
In stanza III, Yevtushenko brings himself to the midst of the pogroms of
Bielostok. He.... |
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