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    A Study Guide for Dahlia Ravikovitch's "Pride"
    A Study Guide for Dahlia Ravikovitch's "Pride"
    A Study Guide for Dahlia Ravikovitch's "Pride"
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    A Study Guide for Dahlia Ravikovitch's "Pride"

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    A Study Guide for Dahlia Ravikovitch's "Pride," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535831345
    A Study Guide for Dahlia Ravikovitch's "Pride"

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      A Study Guide for Dahlia Ravikovitch's "Pride" - Gale

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      Pride

      Dahlia Ravikovitch

      1969

      Introduction

      Pride is a poem by the Israeli poet Dahlia Ravikovitch. It was first published in Hebrew in her collection The Third Book in 1969. The poem was translated into English and is available in Ravikovitch's The Window: New and Selected Poems, translated and edited by Chana Bloch and Ariel Bloch (1989), and, in a slightly different translation, in Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch, translated by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld (2009). Pride is written in free verse and explores by analogy the quality of pride in human life. The poem describes how over time even rocks will crack, and the process takes place in surprising fashion, as it does in people when pride is eventually cast away. Although Ravikovitch's work is not well known to English-speaking readers, she was for decades one of Israel's most popular and acclaimed poets. Her sudden death in 2005 made headlines in the nation's newspapers. Pride is an accessible introduction to her work and is a good example of the poetic voice she cultivated over the years.

      Author Biography

      Ravikovitch was born on November 17, 1936, in Ramat Gan, Palestine. This was before the creation of the modern state of Israel in 1948, and Palestine was under British rule. Ravikovitch's father, Levi, was a Jewish-Russian engineer who emigrated to Palestine from China in the early 1930s. Her mother, Michal, was a teacher. In 1942, when Ravikovitch was six, her father was killed after being run over by a car. Following this tragedy, her mother moved to Kibbutz Geva with her daughter and twin sons. Ravikovitch was unhappy in this environment, and at the age of thirteen,

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