"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 lin ....
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