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| Day 20 - Anna Akhmatova  | Anna Andreeva Akhmatova was a poet who lived at the center of Russian history. She linked the pre-Revolutionary and post-Stalin eras, and despite terrible persecution and censorship, she never gave up on her country. Her work, original and strikingly modern, gave voice to the Russian people during times of great upheaval--her masterpiece is Requiem, dedicated to the victims of Stalin's purges. Akhmatova outlived her persecutors, and her life has become a symbol of truth and integrity. | | "To the Muse"
This little poem is not overtly political or feminist, but it outlines the dilemma of a woman writer (indeed of any writer), caught between the demands of a personal life and her devotion to her craft.
| For further reading: Profile of Akhmatova
Her early life in the Ukraine, emergence as a poet in St. Petersburg, suppression and silence, and her reemergence after the death of Stalin...
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