Poem Without a Hero (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Anna Andreyevna Gorenko
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Suffering, Communism or communists, Socialism, Exile or expatriates, Revolutions, 1940’s, Poetry or poets, 1910’s, Death or dying, Dancing or dancers, Trees, Meditation, Russia or Russian people, Cities or towns, Russian Revolution
The Poem
Poem Without a Hero is subtitled “A Triptych.” Each of the three parts consists of a series of lyrics which together amount to about 750 lines. The poem was composed over a period from 1940 to 1962, in three Russian cities (Leningrad, Tashkent, and Moscow). The poet continually came back to the poem, revising and changing her work under conditions of war, personal danger, sickness, and severe government censorship during the darkest of the Stalinist years. The complicated fate of the poem—fragmentary, frequently revised, and with a complex and fugitive...
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