In her poem, "Voronezh", Akhmatova focuses heavily on the weather. How does this assist in evoking a sense of atmosphere and emotion for the reader?
In the poem, 'Voronezh', Anna Akhmatova focuses heavily on the weather and it evokes a sense of atmosphere and emotions to be felt for the reader so that they can imagine and feel the place and put them selves in the enviornment she describes. The location this is written would be in a city called St Petersburg where she loved, and was written for her poet friend, Osip Mandelshtam who had been exiled to Voronezh for writing a poem critical of Stalin. The first few lines in her poem described the landscape and the weather, "the town is frozen solid...trees, walls, snow, beneath the glass. Over crystal, on slippery tracks of ice..." which sets the reader to place themselve in the image of the cold winter type of weather. When she has mentioned the field of Kulikovo, she has included the feeling of the atmosphere again describing the sight, "battlegroud caught. Frozen poplars...clash now..." This helps to evoke the sense of the emotion, with the knowledge about the battle, how the feelings would be depressing, sad and isolating. The atmosphere is sensed more to the end of the poem, when the poet describes the happiness at the wedding, but completely flips to a miserable emotion when she mentions the execusion of Mandelshtam, "But Fear and the Muse take turns to guard the room where the exiled poet it banised". These lines from the poem explains how she had written another poem for Mandelshtam which is named 'Fear and the Muse' who had been executed because he had written what the government didnt want to read, therefore was banised for his poem. In result, instead of him writing what he wanted to do, she wrote poems for him. This adds to the atmosphere created throughout the poem for the reader to understand the meaning of the poem which is for her friend, and sense the coldness of the environment around her when the poem was written.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Minase Sangin
a)
The poet has written this poem for his/her own comparison to the seasons and the different times of the day. It may be written for his/her lover as a means of relationships developing everysingle day at different times, as well as moving forward from spring to autum. As it says in the poem, 'At twylight on a spring day... the autumn is drawing to its close', describes the change from a season to season. This could relate to his/her reason to why this is being written, for example if it has only been written for his/her own interest in the difference of seasons and the morning and afternoon, or if he/her is using them as a metaphor of love.
b)
The landscape from the poem is described in the second line, 'The gentle slopes of the mountains' and 'the river descends far and distant'. This helps to give the audience some idea and image of where this poem may be written and the feeling of being there. Even the smell of the place can be sensed, 'Plum-fragrance filling the village'. Also the sense of noise can ge achieved from the line, '... every push of the oar is audible from a passing boat'. This helps to further visualise the landscape and the noise and the l around the place which then creates the audience to feel as if they are exactly where the poet was.
c)
I believe the poet was a woman because i know some history of japanese poem etc, was always written by a woman. A long time ago, all women did was to sit with few kimonos on, and write poems expressing feelings and often about their love for someone through many different metaphors. Therefore i already have the impression and an idea that the poet is a women who is writing about where she is and what the different seasons are like, but maybe the poet is also trying to express her love for someone though the metaphors used, eg-seasons and times of a day.
The poet has written this poem for his/her own comparison to the seasons and the different times of the day. It may be written for his/her lover as a means of relationships developing everysingle day at different times, as well as moving forward from spring to autum. As it says in the poem, 'At twylight on a spring day... the autumn is drawing to its close', describes the change from a season to season. This could relate to his/her reason to why this is being written, for example if it has only been written for his/her own interest in the difference of seasons and the morning and afternoon, or if he/her is using them as a metaphor of love.
b)
The landscape from the poem is described in the second line, 'The gentle slopes of the mountains' and 'the river descends far and distant'. This helps to give the audience some idea and image of where this poem may be written and the feeling of being there. Even the smell of the place can be sensed, 'Plum-fragrance filling the village'. Also the sense of noise can ge achieved from the line, '... every push of the oar is audible from a passing boat'. This helps to further visualise the landscape and the noise and the l around the place which then creates the audience to feel as if they are exactly where the poet was.
c)
I believe the poet was a woman because i know some history of japanese poem etc, was always written by a woman. A long time ago, all women did was to sit with few kimonos on, and write poems expressing feelings and often about their love for someone through many different metaphors. Therefore i already have the impression and an idea that the poet is a women who is writing about where she is and what the different seasons are like, but maybe the poet is also trying to express her love for someone though the metaphors used, eg-seasons and times of a day.
