Requiem
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Requiem is a cycle of poems by Anna Akhmatova that powerfully chronicles the suffering and repression experienced under Stalinist terror in the Soviet Union.
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poetry cycle ⓘ |
| addresses | women whose loved ones were imprisoned ⓘ |
| author | Anna Akhmatova NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| censorshipStatus | subject to Soviet censorship ⓘ |
| centralFigure | a mother waiting in prison queues ⓘ |
| compositionMethod | memorized by the author and trusted friends ⓘ |
| containsSection |
Dedication
ⓘ
Epilogue ⓘ Instead of a Preface ⓘ Prologue ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | victims of political repression ⓘ |
| depicts |
arrests and interrogations
ⓘ
fear and despair under surveillance ⓘ queues outside Soviet prisons ⓘ |
| firstPublicationStatus | not officially published in the Soviet Union during Stalin’s lifetime ⓘ |
| genre |
lyric poetry
ⓘ
memorial poetry ⓘ political poetry ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
Great Terror in the Soviet Union
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stalinist purges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy | personal experience of her son’s arrest ⓘ |
| language | Russian ⓘ |
| laterReception | recognized as a monument to victims of Stalinism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
key text of Gulag and terror literature
ⓘ
major work of 20th-century Russian poetry ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
Stalinist repression
ⓘ
motherhood ⓘ mourning and grief ⓘ silence and censorship ⓘ suffering of prisoners and their families ⓘ terror under totalitarianism ⓘ |
| modeOfCirculation |
oral transmission
ⓘ
samizdat ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person female voice ⓘ |
| placeOfWriting | Leningrad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays | collective voice of suffering women ⓘ |
| riskToAuthor | could not be written down safely ⓘ |
| structure | cycle of short poems and prose introduction ⓘ |
| style | concise and emotionally intense ⓘ |
| symbolism |
motifs of crucifixion and martyrdom
ⓘ
religious and liturgical imagery ⓘ |
| timeOfWriting | 1935–1940 ⓘ |
| tone |
restrained
ⓘ
tragic ⓘ |
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