“I myself, from the very beginning, seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium or a reflection in someone else's mirror, without flesh, without meaning, without a name. Already I knew the list of crimes that I was destined to commit.” –Anna Akhmatova. As you can see Anna writes with a simple yet meaningful message. In this quote she is expressing how she feels about her identity. Anna describes that she doesn’t feel like herself and isn’t certain of her identity. One look in the mirror and she is seeing herself as good and the next she sees herself as evil. Anna established her many different identities in various ways in her writings. She would portray a female main character, usually as herself, in her poems with the main idea being
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Petersburg. Her mother, Inna Erazmova Stogova, was a part of an almighty group of landowners. Her father, Andrei Antonovich Gorenko, accepted his royalty from his father who earned a hereditary noble for his service in the royal navy. Anna began to write while she was a teen but her literary career had a huge jumpstart when she published her first book of a collection of poems and verses called “Vecher” (Evening 1912). According to www.poetryfoundation.org “Vecher includes introspective lyrics circumscribed by the themes of love and a woman’s personal fate in both blissful, and more often than not, unhappy romantic relationships”. Most of the time Anna would use her own personal experiences as inspiration for her poems. An example of a poem that she based on her own relationship is titled “On Liubil…” translated as “He Loved…,” This poem was based on her first husband, Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev. Although this poem makes her seem like a traditional wife and mother, she and her husband did not have any children at the time, until their first child Lev Gumilev was born, and their marriage was not ideal. While Gumilev constantly expressed his love for Anna she just was not interested until she finally agreed to marry him. They did not live together due to her husband’s frequent desire to travel. While he was away she had many affairs and eventually they divorced in 1918, a few …show more content…
She was a very alluring and irresistible woman that was also known for her fascinating beauty which obviously made numerous men fawn over her. She was a very brave woman who stood up for women’s rights and her enticing abilities to express the emotion of love through her works. Anna loved her country and according to http://go.galegroup.com Anna said “My poetry is my link to our time. When I write, I live with the very pulse of Russian life”. She wouldn’t leave Russia because of her passion for her home country even though the government tormented her by banning the publishing of her work and many other confrontations, including what happened to her family who were also treated poorly by the Russian government. Anna had survived many historical points in her life and fought for what she did best: writing. According to http://go.galegroup.com because of her phenomenal writing Anna “received a number of awards, particularly from European countries, including the Etna-Taormina literary prize from the Italian government in 1964 and an honorary doctorate from Oxford University in 1965. She established a reputation as a “Russian Sappho” in many countries”. “Sappho” is also a female poet that expresses affection in her works. Anna was the most significant poet in Russian history who is the most popularly read and quoted poet from in
Petersburg. Her mother, Inna Erazmova Stogova, was a part of an almighty group of landowners. Her father, Andrei Antonovich Gorenko, accepted his royalty from his father who earned a hereditary noble for his service in the royal navy. Anna began to write while she was a teen but her literary career had a huge jumpstart when she published her first book of a collection of poems and verses called “Vecher” (Evening 1912). According to www.poetryfoundation.org “Vecher includes introspective lyrics circumscribed by the themes of love and a woman’s personal fate in both blissful, and more often than not, unhappy romantic relationships”. Most of the time Anna would use her own personal experiences as inspiration for her poems. An example of a poem that she based on her own relationship is titled “On Liubil…” translated as “He Loved…,” This poem was based on her first husband, Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev. Although this poem makes her seem like a traditional wife and mother, she and her husband did not have any children at the time, until their first child Lev Gumilev was born, and their marriage was not ideal. While Gumilev constantly expressed his love for Anna she just was not interested until she finally agreed to marry him. They did not live together due to her husband’s frequent desire to travel. While he was away she had many affairs and eventually they divorced in 1918, a few …show more content…
She was a very alluring and irresistible woman that was also known for her fascinating beauty which obviously made numerous men fawn over her. She was a very brave woman who stood up for women’s rights and her enticing abilities to express the emotion of love through her works. Anna loved her country and according to http://go.galegroup.com Anna said “My poetry is my link to our time. When I write, I live with the very pulse of Russian life”. She wouldn’t leave Russia because of her passion for her home country even though the government tormented her by banning the publishing of her work and many other confrontations, including what happened to her family who were also treated poorly by the Russian government. Anna had survived many historical points in her life and fought for what she did best: writing. According to http://go.galegroup.com because of her phenomenal writing Anna “received a number of awards, particularly from European countries, including the Etna-Taormina literary prize from the Italian government in 1964 and an honorary doctorate from Oxford University in 1965. She established a reputation as a “Russian Sappho” in many countries”. “Sappho” is also a female poet that expresses affection in her works. Anna was the most significant poet in Russian history who is the most popularly read and quoted poet from in