The Snowstorm (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Marina Tsvetayeva
- First Published: 1923
- Type of Work: Verse drama
- Genres: Poetry, Closet drama
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Escapes, Women, Hotels, motels, or inns, Imagination, Hunting or hunters, Merchants, Nobility, Snow, Czechoslovakia or Czechoslovakians
The Poem
The Snowstorm is a short play that Marina Tsvetayeva subtitled “dramatic scenes in verse.” It is the first of Tsvetayeva’s dramatic works and was written in Moscow in December, 1918. Tsvetayeva’s early dramatic works are written in a neoromantic style. Although Tsvetayeva is not generally considered as one of the Russian Symbolist writers, or as a member of any group of poets writing during what is known as the Silver Age of Russian poetry, this play is noticeably influenced by the Symbolists.
The play takes place at an inn in Bohemia on New...
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