Race to the Finish
What is the Blackamoor of Peter the Great based on?
The life of Pushkin's great grandfather, Hannibal
Which passage is taken from Eugene's letter to Tatiana?
I fear lest this humble prayer,
May be construed by your mind
As some deceit the eye lays bare,
And your reproach repay in kind
or
Who are you, my guardian angel?
Or a wily devil, a tempter fatal?
Disperse these doubts, this agony.
I fear lest this humble prayer,
May be construed by your mind
As some deceit the eye lays bare,
And your reproach repay in kind
What does the The Bronze Horseman statue in the poem of the same name symbolize?
Which poem is this excerpt taken from?
Tormented by a spiritual thirst,
I stumbled through a gloomy waste,
And there a six-winged seraph
Appeared before me at the crossroad.
With touch as light as slumber,
He laid his fingers on my eyes,
Which opened wide in prophecy
The Prophet
What is Pushkin's Eugene Onegin heavily based on?
Don Juan, by Byron
Does Pushkin's blackness inhibit his identity as a Russian writer?
Not at all, it enhances it!
Which excerpt is taken from Tatiana's letter to Onegin?
In dreams you have appeared to me,
Though yet unseen, I held you dear,
Your glance and strangeness tortured me,
To my soul your voice was loud and clear
or
To listen to you, and to know
Your perfection in all this;
To suffer at your feet and so
Grow paler, and then die….what bliss!
In dreams you have appeared to me,
Though yet unseen, I held you dear,
Your glance and strangeness tortured me,
To my soul your voice was loud and clear
Which year was essentially a "Pushkin year," which events dedicated to the poet all across Russia?
1937
What is the poem Arion about?
We were a crowd inside the boat
Some of us trimmed the sails,
While others gamely plunged
The mighty oars into the deep. While in the calm,
Our skillful helmsman, leaning to the wheel,
Steered the craft without a word;
And I - abrim with carefree hope -
I sang to all the crew....A sudden gust
Then roared, and swept the ocean's breast . . .
The helmsman and the crew were lost!
And I alone, mysterious bard,
Was tossed upon the stormy shore
And sang my anthems as before
While spreading out my sodden robe
To dry upon a sunny cliff.
A eulogy on the anniversary of the execution of his friends who were part of the Decembrist revolt
Give one example of how Pushkin's name was exploited politically in the years after the 1880 celebration.
- portrayed as "new Soviet man"
etc.
Did Pushkin say this?
"I resolved, since it was impossible for me to get away from an inborn complex, to assert myself as a BLACK MAN"
No, Frantz Fanon said this. But according to Bethea, Pushkin would never say something like this because Pushkin believed in explaining things in terms of "the other"
What does Pushkin bring to the duel, in which he is ultimately killed by d'Anthes, and about which he also wrote a poem?
Talisman
Which line did Pushkin write?
"I've reared a monument not built by human hands."
Or
"I have created a monument more lasting than bronze"
"I've reared a monument not built by human hands."
bonus: who wrote the other line?
What line was originally missing in Boris Godunov but later added by censors?
The people were silent
Give one example of how Pushkin's name was exploited economically in the years after the 1880 celebration.
selling books the day after the 50th anniversary of his death, selling busts/portraits, printing his likeness on chocolate bars, etc.
What is the parallel of the American "black female slave" in Russia?
The enserfed peasant woman
Give one example of "skaz" from Pushkin's works
Any story written as if the author-narrator is hearing it from someone else. E.g. Tales of Belkin
Is Father Pimen from Boris Godunov reliable? Why or why not?
Describe how one of Pushkin's poems is similar thematically to Egyptian Nights.
To the Poet, The Prophet, Poet,
Idea that the poet is divinely gifted, shoud not care about the criticism of others if he himself is satisfied with his work
What is Count Nulin based on? How is Count Nulin different from the work that inspired it?
The Rape of Lucretia by Shakespeare. Count Nulin is different because the heroine just slaps the Count.
Why is Pushkin's relationship to his niania signifcant?
She is one who teaches him about Russian everyday life, his rodnost, and made him who he was outside of his identity as an aristocrat
How are Tatiana and antenantiosis related?
What was Pushkin's first attempt at writing prose?
The Blackamoor of Peter the Great
What does the rhyme pair volya and dolya mean?
According to Dostoevksy's speech in 1880, what are the three archetypes that emerge from Pushkin's writing?
The wandering Russ, the Russian woman, the universal man