Anna Akhmatova is a well-known Russian poet and the pen name of Anna Andreyevna Gorenko. She was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in 1965 and her work ranges from lyric poems to structured cycles. ‘Requiem’ is one of the best examples of her work.
‘You should appear less often in my dreams’ by Anna Akhmatova describes the difference between a dream relationship and the one that exists in real life.
You should appear less often in my dreams,
Since we meet so frequently;
‘He loved three things, alive:’ by Anna Akhmatova is a short poem in which the speaker describes her husbands likes and dislikes.
He loved three things, alive:
White peacocks, songs at eve,
And antique maps of America.
Hated when children cried,
‘Courage’ by Anna Akhmatova is a passionate poem about courage in the face of war. Specifically, Akhmatova was writing about World War II.
‘I Taught Myself to Live Simply’ by Anna Akhmatova, a famous Russian author, is a beautiful and profound poem that promotes a life of elegance and simplicity.
This intriguing poem, ‘Lot’s Wife’, by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Richard Wilbur, takes an age-old story that has been passed down from generation to generation and tells it from a new perspective, that of Lot’s wife.
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