The Dream, The Caucasus, The Epistle and Other Poems: read in Ukrainian (C2)
Read Taras Shevchenko’s banned political and biblical poems in Ukrainian, 1876 Prague edition. Level C2: Church Slavonic, old spelling, word translation.
Сон. Кавказ. Посланіє та інші поеми (Тарас Шевченко)
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What you'll learn
19th-century Ukrainian verse with inversions, the 1876 spelling (ё for йо, ъ and ь for the apostrophe, initial и, ѣ and ѳ in quotations), long adjective forms (святая, святиї, тую), Church Slavonic quotations and biblical diction (єси, вскую, возхвалимо), Russian dialogue in a satire, imperatives and vocatives of prophecy and prayer, allusions to Peter I, Catherine II, Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the Decembrists, paraphrases of the Psalms and the prophets
This article contains sixteen political, prophetic and biblical poems by Taras Shevchenko in the uncensored second volume of the Kobzar printed in Prague in 1876: Dream, The Caucasus, the epistle to his countrymen, Testament, Velykyi lokh, The Heretic extracts, ten Psalms of David, Neophytes, Maria and others, written between 1843 and 1859 and mostly banned in the Russian Empire. Level C2 suits readers who want to meet a historical stage of the language, as Shakespeare is for English. You will learn the 1876 spelling (ё, ъ for the apostrophe, initial и), Church Slavonic biblical diction and the history behind Ukraine’s national poet.
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