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"Babi Yar" By Yevgeny Yevtushenko: An Analysis - College Essays

"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 writes of a future time when the Russian people realize that
the Jews are people as well accept them as such. If you hate the Jews, he
asks, why not hate me as well? True peace and unity will only occur when
they have accepted everyone, including the Jews.

Stanza I describes the forest of Babi Yar, a ravine on the ...

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still bars the marks of the
persecution of the past. There is still terrible persecution of the Jews in
present times because of their religion. These lines serve as the
transition from the Biblical and ancient examples he gives to the allusions
of 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 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. ...

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