“Tell me how men kiss you / tell me how you kiss. “. – The Guest , 1914
🌹Anna Akhmatova 🔼
Anna Andreyevna Gorenko
(23 June 1889 – 5 March 1966).
She is better known by the pen name
Anna Akhmatova, was one of the most significant Russian poets of 20th century.
She won fame with her first poetry collections ( Evening’s publication 1912, Rosary 1914). Soon after the Revolution of 1917, Soviet authorities condemned her work for what they perceived as its narrow preoccupation with love and God, and in 1923, after the execution of her former husband on conspiracy charges, she entered a long period of literary silence.
After World War II, she was again denounced and expelled from the Writers Union. Following Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953, she was slowly rehabilitated. In her later years she became the influential centre of a circle of younger Russian poets. Her longest work, Poem Without a Hero, is regarded as one of the great poems of the 20th century. She is always as one of the greatest of all Russian poets.
🔺Her famous poem :-
Poema bez geroia (Poem without a Hero)
1973.
🔺Unique poem “Lot’s Wife”, 1991.
🔺In 1964 she was awarded the Etna-Taormina prize & an honorary Doctorate degree from Oxford University in 1965.
🔺Above Portrait of Anna Akhmatova by Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya,1914
“A land not mine, still forever memorable, the waters of its ocean chill and fresh.
Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk, and the air drunk, like wine, late sun lays bare the rosy limbs of the pinetrees.
Sunset in the ethereal waves: I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.”
– A land not mine, 1964
✍️ Isaiah Berlin described the impact of her life, as he saw it :
The widespread worship of her memory in Soviet Union today, both as an artist and as an unsurrendering human being, has, so far as I know, no parallel. The legend of her life and unyielding passive resistance to what she regarded as unworthy of her country and herself, transformed her into a figure […] not merely in Russian literature, but in Russian history in [the twentieth] century.
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