Word: likes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There the air is blue like the bundle of linen...
Eliot's memorable "when the evening is spread out against the sky/ Like a patient etherised upon a table." But such instances of point-to-point similarity are rare. A Westerner can perhaps best understand Boris Pasternak's revolutionary impact on Russian verse within the historic Russian context...
...poem called The Prophet. A further subject is the creative act itself, including Pasternak's writing of his poem. This corresponds to his belief that "the world's best creations describe their own birth.'' The birth of the poem, Pasternak seems to be saying, is like the birth of a world, day emerging from night. The poet encompasses the world and suffers to express it ("Blood froze in the huge Colossus") while the common run of humanity sleeps under the snows. Such is Pasternak's own creative shorthand that -as with any major poet...
...Like bottled wine, and hailed...
...open a window is like opening a vein...