NATIONAL IDENTITY AND YEHUDA AMICHAI’S POETRY
NATIONAL IDENTITY AND YEHUDA AMICHAI’S POETRY

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyze how Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000), a national poet of Israel, manages to create a national and cultural identity. Poets help create the nationalist mythology of a country and people. They are part of what makes a nation as an imagined community, according to Anderson’s views. Yehuda Amichai combines personal experience with national historical feeling. He experiences history on a personal level. He also combines the use of irony with very serious subjects, patriotic feeling included. This feature in his poetry can be due to the fact that there was a general tendency for the poetry of nationalism after World War I to limit its militarist tendencies (Aberbach 2003).

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