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"Babi Yar" by Yevgeny Yevtushenko: An Analysis
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
hardships and injustices. "Only then can I call myself Russian." (lines 66-
67). The poet wr ....
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.... more recent acts of hatred. The lines also allude to the fact that these
Russian Jews who were murdered at Babi Yar were martyrs as well.
The next stanza reminds us of another event in Jewish history where a Jew
was persecuted solely because of his 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 ....
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