Michael Raemisch
Mrs. Potter
English 10
7 May 2014
Life During the Cold War
How would you like it if your government tried to control your life and banned all your prized work in your own country. This is what The Soviet Union did to Boris Pasternak while he tried to make a career in poetry. He tried to make a career by writing poems about the Cold War and the Russian Revolution. One of his Most well known poems is “The Nobel Prize”
“The Nobel Prize” is a well known poem written by Boris Pasternak. Pasternak talks about how bad it is living in Russia and how they make your plans for you but it never says who “they” are so im going to assume he means the government. It says “Am I a murderer, a miscreant?” So the author is being blamed for something or maybe just being treated like a criminal for no reason. Boris Pasternak wrote stories and poems that were against the government ways and picked apart the government. The Nobel Prize was written by Boris Pasternak in 1958. When it was published it was forbidden in Russia. In 1988 it was finally released to the public. Boris Pasternak was born in 1890 and died in 1960.
Boris Pasternak was an author who lived in Russia. His dad was Leonid Pasternak, a well known portrait artist and college professor (Barnes). His mother was Rose Kaufmann-Pasternak, a concert pianist (Barnes). He was born and raised in Russia until 1910 when he moved to Germany to study philosophy (Barnes). Pasternak then moved back to Moscow to work in poetry. His first published poem was in 1914 called Twins In The Clouds (Barnes). Then came Over the Barriers, My Sisters Life, and Themes and Variations, which made him a pillar of Russia's modern poetry (Barnes). Then when the cold war came into Russia, Pasternak bega...
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...ut at my back I hear the chase
And there is no escape outside.
Darkest wood and lakeside shore, gaunt trunk of a levelled tree, my way is cut off on all sides:
Let what may, come; Alls one to me.
Is here some ill I have committed?
Am I a murderer a miscreant?
For I have made the whole world weep
Over the beauty of this land.
But even at the very grave
I trust thee shall come to be
When over Malice, over wrong,
The good will win it’s victory (Pasternak 251, 252).
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