{"id":259,"date":"2015-03-31T10:22:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T14:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/havighurst\/?p=259"},"modified":"2015-10-08T14:31:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T18:31:41","slug":"shevchenko-and-ukrainian-nationhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/havighurst\/2015\/03\/31\/shevchenko-and-ukrainian-nationhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Shevchenko and Ukrainian Nationhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HST\/ATH\/RUS 254 students enrolled in the spring 2015 all read the recent translation of Taras Shevchenko’s\u00a0Kobzar\u00a0by Peter Fedynsky. \u00a0The class discussed the role Shevchenko’s poetry has played in the construction of Ukrainian nationhood. \u00a0As a creative exercise, students composed their own “Shevchenko” poem. \u00a0Here are two of the best as determined by the class. “A Forgotten Hope” and “Where Has the Hetman Gone?” both capture themes, images, and ideas at the heart of Shevchenko’s works.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cA Forgotten Hope\u201d<\/p>\n

By Lauren Bauman<\/p>\n

Mounds leak Kozak blood<\/p>\n

While the Dnipro weeps<\/p>\n

For her sons and daughters<\/p>\n

Held captive in a foreign tyranny<\/p>\n

Run by peacocks and grizzlies<\/p>\n

That have yet to find a loyal soul<\/p>\n

To support their bloody endeavors.<\/p>\n

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Lofty hills and grassy steppes<\/p>\n

Rest under clear blue skies<\/p>\n

That remember a glorious day<\/p>\n

When Ukraine was free and prosperous<\/p>\n

With its own people under its wings.<\/p>\n

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Let the eagle soar<\/p>\n

And return back<\/p>\n

To its beloved Ukraine!<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhere Has the Hetman Gone?\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul McCreary<\/p>\n

O Hetman where have you gone?<\/p>\n

Your lofty hills want your return<\/p>\n

The peasants long for their Hetmanate<\/p>\n

As they sell their herds to a Moscovite noble<\/p>\n

Leaving none left to graze by the willows.<\/p>\n

The peasants long for the Kozaks<\/p>\n

Riding along the shores of the Dnipro<\/p>\n

Serving their Hetman, their Ukraine<\/p>\n

Instead of kneeling before a drunken tsar<\/p>\n

Who punders needlessly through the Hetman\u2019s lands<\/p>\n

Seizing all he can to sell to the Poles and Jews.<\/p>\n

Where is Ukraine\u2019s Hetman, her protector?<\/p>\n

He lays dead on a steppe, a victim of the tsar\u2019s war.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Lauren Bauman is sophomore at Miami majoring in creative writing. \u00a0Paul McCreary is a freshman at Miami majoring in diplomacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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