Transcript Ravikovitch

Pride
Omar Meza
Bryan Marquez
Anthony Hernandez
Ivan Heredia
Dahlia Ravikovitch
• Ravikovitch was born in Ramat Gan, Israel on
November 27, 1936.
• She was the Daughter of a Russian-Jewish
engineer named Levi and her mother Michal
• Her mother was a teacher by profession.
• She learned to read and write at the age of
three
Ravikovitch
• In her early life she lost her father at
the age of 6 when he was ran over by
a drunken driver.
• At age 13 she moved into a foster
home in Haifa which was the first of
several foster homes.
• Ravikovitch married at the age of 18
but she got divorced only 3 months
after.
• She married twice later on but
divorced again and only had one son
by the name of Ido Kalir.
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In mid life she was heavily involved
in the Israeli Peace Movement and
served in the Israel Defense Forces.
She went to The Hebrew University
of Jerusalem where she studied
Literature and worked as a
journalist and High School teacher.
Ravikovitch’s poems began to
appear in the 1950’s and was the
only recognized female Hebrew
poet of her generation.
Her influences were WB Yeats, Edgar Allan Poe, TS Eliot, and Mary Poppins
as she would translate there work into Hebrew poems
Her Last Moments
• In the last years of her life she suffered from
severe Depression. She was found dead In her
apartment on August 21, 2005 originally was
believed to have been a suicide, but was later
on attributed to be heart failure.
About the Poem
• Originally this poem was written in Hebrew.
• Chana & Ariel Bloch are the ones who
translated this poem to English.
• This poem is a 20 lined stanza.
• No iambic is used.
• The rhyme scheme is not consistent.
• Making this a free verse poem
Structure
I tell you even rocks crack,
And not because of age
For years they lie on their backs
in the heat and the cold
so many years,
It almost seems peaceful
They don’t move, so their cracks stay
Years pass over them, waiting
Whoever is going to shatter them
hasn’t come yet
And so the moss flourishes, the seaweed
Whips around,
the sea pushes through and rolls back
the rocks seem motionless.
Till a little seal comes to rub against them,
comes and goes away.
And suddenly the rocks has an open wound.
I told you, when rocks break, it happens by surprise
And people too.
• The poem uses apostrophe in the
first line of the stanza for she is
talking to someone who is not
there
• Throughout the poem this is
using conceit. By comparing the
rocks pride to a persons pride,
this does not tell you until the,
but surly not directly.
• Ravikovitch uses personification
by giving this rock a steady life.
Poems diction
I tell you even rocks crack,
And not because of age
For years they lie on their backs
in the heat and the cold
so many years,
It almost seems peaceful
They don’t move, so their cracks stay
Years pass over them, waiting
Whoever is going to shatter them
hasn’t come yet
And so the moss flourishes, the seaweed
Whips around,
the sea pushes through and rolls back
the rock seem motionless.
Till a little seal comes to rub against them,
comes and goes away.
And suddenly the rocks has an open wound.
I told you, when rocks break, it happens by surprise
And people too.
• The tone to the poem
seems to have a
negative tone for the
poem’s diction has
more negative words
then positive.
• This is because what
inspired this poem was
the depressing times
during WWII.
Questions
1.What is the Author talking about in the first stanza?
A. a seal B. a rock C. the ocean D. Life
2. Ravikovitch died in what year?
A. 2005 B. 2000 C. 1995 D. 2003
3. Who divided the Jewish homeland in 1948?
A. Germany B. U.S.A C. Russia D. Nazis
4. What happens to the rock physically as it ages?
A. florishes B. rolls C. dies D. cracks
5. What emotions does the rock represent?
A. life B. happiness C. pride D. sadness
6. What pushes through and rolls back?
A. a seal B. the sea C. the moss D. a seagel
7. On a rock, what stays hidden?
A. a crab B. the moss C. the cracks D. the water
Questions
8. True/False; Ravikovitch never got married and so
she did not have any children.
9. How sudden does a rock break?
A. it doesn’t B. not sudden C.slowly D. By surprise
10. What causes the rock to have an open wound?
A. its pride B. the sea C. the moss D. the seal