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Tag: Shmuel Hanagid

Two Eclipses by Shmuel Hanagid: Analysis

Posted on April 20, 2020April 20, 2020 by JL Admin

The version of ‘‘Two Eclipses’’ reproduced here is a modern English translation of a poem written by a Spaniard in Hebrew a millennium ago. Any translator of such a poem has to make a number of decisions and compromises in making it accessible to a modern reader while retaining essential qualities of the original. One…

Two Eclipses by Shmuel Hanagid: Summary

Posted on April 19, 2020April 19, 2020 by JL Admin

Lines 1–15  The speaker in ‘‘Two Eclipses’’ begins by addressing an unseen friend who appears to still be sleeping in the morning. He urges the friend to wake up, to wake up the dawn, and to look at the sky, which has the mottled appearance of the skin of a leopard. He notes that the…

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