The poem “St. Petersburg” by Osip Mandelstam is about the change in St. Petersburg city from the past to the present, hence its name. In the first stanza the author about how he is going to meet St. Petersburg for the first time, and how the world is empty. Interpreting the stanza it seems that this would be the author's first netting after the name of the city has changed as he knows so much about the city in the past. The second stanza is about the environment in the city, in the past as it has some imagery about how cheerful the city was. The mood of the author seems to be confidence and bravery as he states that he is not scared of the guards although the guards are patrolling the bridge. This would be when he entered the city. The third
