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2018 Publications

International Journal of Social Science
and Humanities Research

Vol. 6, Issue 2, pp: (725-734), Month:
April - June 2018

When Writing Becomes a Bulwark against Anarchy and Oppression: Anna
Akhmatova's Example
Sabbar S. Sultan

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.
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