Abstract: Anna Akhmatova's poetry and its ongoing transmutations is evidence of the ever-present conflict between the writing subject and its surrounding circumstances, a conflict that might reach the extent of jeopardizing the life and security of the practitioner him/herself. The present paper aims to explore how writing poetry, especially in the 1930s and the 1940s made Anna Akhmatova both the eyewitness and victim of intolerable circumstances that only strong-willed people of her type could endure. Also the nature of her poetry, its development, and characteristic features will be highlighted. The paper comprises four main sections: first, the preliminaries provides some background about the two stages in the writer's poetry and its totally different interests. The second is concerned with the two trends in Russian poetry, i.e., Symbolism and Acmetism which dominated the literary scene in the first half of the twentieth century. The third is the main argument that covers three subsections: Reqieum, Poem without a Hero and Akhmatova and Metapoetry. The fourth section is the conclusion where the main points of the paper are recapitulated and highlighted.
Keywords: Acmetism, poetry, the past, metapoetry, Requiem, Poem without a Hero.
Title: When Writing Becomes a Bulwark against Anarchy and Oppression: Anna Akmatova's Example
Author: Dr. Sabbar S. Sultan
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
Research Publish Journals
