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- Title
Disguised Wrath and Hidden Heresy: On Bialik's 'Dance of Despair'
- Authors
Ben-porat, Ziva
- Abstract
A critical examination is given to the poem "dance of Despair," by the Hebrew poet Chaim Nachman Bailik. It attempts to show that the work is a "poem of wrath" in which the voices are those of a prophet and the God of Israel. Topics addressed include editorial confusion over how to classify the poem due to a conflict between the poem's formal organization and semantic content, the origin of the term "poem of wrath," and the ways in which the denial of God's existence is expressed.
- Subjects
DANCE of Despair (Poem); BIALIK, Hayyim Nahman, 1873-1934; HEBREW poetry; MODERN Hebrew poetry; ANGER in literature; GOD in Judaism; LITERARY criticism; POETRY (Literary form)
- Publication
Prooftexts, 1986, Vol 6, Issue 3, p221
- ISSN
0272-9601
- Publication type
Poetry Review