Month: April 2019

Марина Цветаева. “Читатели газет”, “Тоска по Родине…”

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READING RESPONSE PROMPTS Marina Tsvetaeva’s poems are savvy, sharp, and striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness. Her poetry is supremely entertaining, full of puns, forms, original and outlandish rhymes, brilliant metaphors, and similes. She has a remarkably modern voice that one recognizes immediately. What do you think makes her poetry so surprisingly modern? Pick […]

Тэффи “Que Faire”

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WRITE A ONE-PAGE RESPONSE PAPER ON THE STORY 1. Teffi was utterly clear-eyed and her writings trustworthy as testimony. For example, she writes about the Russian expatriates – lesrusses –“Every lesrusse hates all the others …” Should the reader believe her? 2. Teffi maintained that “An anecdote is funny when it’s being told, but when […]