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Analysis of the Poem "Babi Yar"- In the poem, Babi Yar, Yevgeny Yevtushenko does a wonderful job of paying tribute to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. He does this by portraying the history of the Jewish people. Yevtushenko also uses various literary devices to heighten the sentiment of the poem. The poem is told in the first person, by the author of the poem. In the poem it is also apparent that he …

…of a sudden there are "The rampant pogrom roars". Things are getting worse. In the following stanza is a "translucent twig". The repeated "t" sound is like the ticking of a time bomb. Immediately after this one reads of the "pounding", or the final explosion. The explosion creates a "silent" sound and an "endless soundless" because "thousands and thousandsof thousands are dead". There is hardly anyone left to attack. Almost all the Jews are dead.