Poetry · Character
Bosphorus
The personified Bosphorus strait, appearing in exile poems.
minor
Also known as great Bosphorus
First appearance: caucasus
Bosphorus shows up with force in Hamaleia. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Personified as a great bull, he groans at the Cossack cry and later desists from waking the Turks.
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- Breaking point
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- Closing
This is the dramatic climax because the speaker reaches the absolute nadir of despair—declaring life itself wo…
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