We Met for the Last Time (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Anna Andreyevna Gorenko
- First Published: 1914
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Nature, Poetry or poets, God, Women, Rivers or waterways, Separation, Fortresses, Summer, Air
The Poem
Through twelve lines forming three stanzas, the speaker recalls a final meeting between herself and a man, perhaps a lover, someone with whom she had previously had other meetings, implied in the second line, “where we had always met.” The place where the meeting took place, the embankment, is clearly recalled, and she remembers of what the man spoke: summer and the absurd idea of a woman being a poet. In her mind’s eye, she can “still see” the palace and fortress, she can still imagine the air itself, “so miraculous.” The friend, or lover, however,...
[The entire page is 1540 words long]
