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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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....religious 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. H.... |
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