Imagery in the Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova’s poetry is rich with images that evoke loss and melancholy, yet at the same time, acceptance, or at least resignation. Without knowing much about her life, a reader — or this one at least — can quite easily understand that she endured great loss, but did so without blame, or even much regret. The tone of her poems is what I would call ‘observational,’ in that they seem to be written in the voice of a detached observer, who is noting, rather than expressing, the feelings of a third party rather than herself.
Akhmatova accomplishes this through the
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