Prologue (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Dramatic monologue
- Genres: Poetry, Dramatic monologue
- Subjects: Dictators, Freedom, Self, Authors or writers, Poetry or poets, Oppression, Death or dying, Work or workers, East and West, Russia or Russian people
The Poem
“Prologue” is a poem in free verse, its sixty-six lines divided into six stanzas of uneven length. Written in 1953, shortly after the beginning of Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s career, the poem can be seen in retrospect as an introduction to his entire body of work, as the title indicates.
Like many of Yevtushenko’s poems, “Prologue” serves as a vehicle of self-identification. In the very first line, “I am different,” the poet makes a statement that would sound self-evident and redundant had it not been written at the beginning of a new phase in Russian...
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