Despite his heritage, this poem's speaker is "hated with a passion that's corrosive" by bigots whom he wishes were "buried and forgotten" "for all time.
Despite his heritage, this poem's speaker is "hated with a passion that's corrosive" by bigots whom he wishes were "buried and forgotten" "for all time." It seems to this poem's speaker that he is in love, and has "no need of phrases / Only that we gaze into each other's eyes." The speaker of this poem says "I am afraid" before remembering a people who "plod through ancient ($) Egypt" and "perish crucified on the cross," despite the fact that in his blood there is no Jewish blood. This poem's author replaced "I myself am one massive, soundless scream" with "I think of Russia's heroic dead" at the behest of Soviet authorities. The author of this poem claims "Nothing in me shall ever forget" that "I am each child (*) shot here dead." This poem's title place is described as "A drop as sheer as a crude gravestone" after the speaker mentions that "no monument stands over" it. For ten points, identify this poem used in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13, a Yevgeny Yevtushenko work titled after a massacre in a Kiev ravine.
Despite his heritage, this poem's speaker is "hated with a passion that's corrosive" by bigots whom he wishes were "buried and forgotten" "for all time.
“{Babi}yy {Yar}”