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Color in Anna Akhmatova's Early Poetry. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, May 2009, Pages: 72
Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966), a Russian post-Symbolist
poet, published a variety of poems in the Russian
language, which were later translated into English.
The book focuses on her early poetry collections
Evening (1912), Rosary (1914), White Flock (1917),
and Anno Domini (1922) and the semantics of color
used as the medium conveying the essence of the
persona’s self in Akhmatova’s early poetry at
various temporal stages of past and present. The
book focuses on basic colors, such as white, yellow,
red, green, blue, gray, and black, because their
usage is predominant in Akhmatova’s poetry. The
study of her early poetry and its translations (by
Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward, Richard McKane,
D.M.Thomas, Judith Hemschemeyer, Jane Kenyon and
Vera Sandomirsky Dunham) anchored in the semantics
of color, its etymology, and relation to various
objects reveals the stylistic devices the poet uses
to show how the persona finds herself in the objects
through concrete visual sensations and the
exploration of things past, present, and future.
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