Poetry for Students, Volume 29

Russian heritage. He reminds the people that most Russians are good at heart. Yevtushenko argues that people who are kind and go ...

Frank, whose death then becomes representative of the suffering endured by all the children whose lives were destroyed because o ...

never grew up to experience a life shared with a man she loved. The speaker does not identify himself as a poet or even as a Rus ...

Union. Communism had been the dominant political party in the Soviet Union beginning in 1912 and had also dominated Russian poli ...

renounced Judaism and had become a Lutheran. His Jewish background worked well for the Nazi goal of attacking Communism, which b ...

soccer stadium were built on the site, and in time a television station and factory were also built there. However, no memorial ...

In the years immediately after the end of World War II, little Holocaust literature was pro- duced. Many Jewish survivors of the ...

victims and educating the public about these events. In a sense, his goal was probably not much different than Yevtushenko’s. Th ...

create a complete picture, as Langer admits, but it can create a composite of that experience, which he suggests can illuminate ...

spanning his entire career, shows Yevtushenko both as a poet and as a politician. Indeed, as anyone who has followed his career ...

in notes, thus allowing a reader not thoroughly versed in Russian and Soviet history, politics, culture, and current events to m ...

condemns the Vietnam War, and deplores the situation in Northern Ireland. His criticism is not limited to the West, however. A p ...

The next story deals with the presentation of a State Prize to Yevtushenko in 1984 for his long poem ‘‘Momma and the Neutron Bom ...

people and their supporters. (Pamyat has done him a great favor: its opposition has been adduced as proof of his credentials as ...

For a time their heir Yevtushenko surpassed them, since he became genuinely popular. His popularity might have been owed in part ...

cheating moves, and clever adaptations to exist- ing conditions (which became more and more stifling after Khrushchev’s removal ...

problems of modern (or any) poetics. For all his declarations of ardor and fervor, Yevtushenko is hackneyed, kitschy, and lukewa ...

fell. Yevtushenko was forced to confess his irrep- arable error. While others, like Solzhenitsyn, chose silence, Yevtushenko got ...

now contemplates the self-destruction of pere- stroika may well hear in Yevtushenko’s words the feelings of Gorbachev himself. B ...

Further Reading Bergen, Doris L.,War & Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust, Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. As the ...