Requiem biography of Akhmatova

The materials used by Requiem is one of the most important works in the creative biography of Akhmatova. And it was created in one of the most difficult periods for the poetess - during the repressions of the years when fate struck her one after another. So, in the year, her son Lev Gumilev and her husband N. Punin were arrested, then in 38 the son was arrested again, Mandelstam dies in exile ...

The “Requiem” became memorials to all the victims of the Stalinist tyranny, but he is significant not only as a separate literary work: without him it is impossible to understand either life or creativity, nor the personality of Akhmatova. Critic A. Urban believed that it was the publication of the “Requiem” who forever ended with the legend of Akhmatova “as an exclusively chamber”.

All stages of “walking in the torment” of the poet with documentary accuracy are reflected in the poem, which then move into the epic about the fate of the mother, homeland and people. Writing the cycle opens up a poem about the morning of the arrest of Punin: “They took you away at dawn, for you, as in a span, walked, children cried in a dark room, the candle moved in the goddess.

On your lips are cold icons, mortal sweat on the bang cannot be forgotten! I will, like the Streltsky wives, howl under the Kremlin towers. Anna Akhmatova turns to the history of the Russian Middle Ages, comparing herself with the "Sagittaries". A phrase that is of key importance for the poem is already sounding: “Do not forget! Akhmatova risked her life, continuing to create even under the oppression of power, thereby preserving the culture of Russian poetry.

Is this not an act of civil courage, not heroism and not a feat? The rest of the cycle is dedicated to the son of Akhmatova and his arrest. Lev Gumilev was arrested several times: in March then, the second time, the lion was sentenced to death after 17 months, but later the sentence was replaced by the link. However, A. She was very thin and often hurt. But in any condition and in any weather, often in the cold, she had to stand in endless lines, ”Amanda Hate writes in her biographical book.

In Requiem, Akhmatova had to express his personal suffering. But in order to express these torments in the word, A. Chapters of the “Requiem” correspond to the stages of her procession. The arrest of Leo Gumilyov, the reason for which was, apparently, only the fact that he was the son of Akhmatova and Gumilyov, only aggravated the mother’s tragedy. But from what blood is literally in the “Requiemes” in the veins, it is from the consciousness of the inevitability, bordering on the necessity, everything that happens at the crucifix, when the “choir of angels was glorified”.

And when Mary Magdalen sobbed, “Mary, his mother, has to observe all this, realizing that it is impossible to help, no matter how strong her maternal love is, and that his suffering is necessary in the fulfillment of the divine plan. This, perhaps, consists in the tragedy of Akhmatova-mother, which we see in“ Requiem ”. She does not look at Mary from the outside, but I said: then I said it, and then I said it.

Something like a smile that was once her face. For someone, the wind blows fresh, for some, the sunset undertakes-we do not know, we are the same everywhere, we hear only the keys a shameful gnashing and steps heavy soldiers. They rose, as an early -earnest, in the capital of the wild went, the sun below and Neva is foggy, and Nadezhda sings in the distance. And immediately the tears will pour, it is already separated from everyone, as if with pain, life from the heart will be taken out of the heart, as if rudely backward, overturned.