"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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.... and pain and fear of the Jews who stood
there in this place of horror. Yevtushenko makes himself an Israelite slave of
Egypt and a martyr who died for the sake of his religion. In lines 7-8, he
claims that he 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 line ....
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