Wolf (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Osip Mandelstam
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: 1930’s, Russia or Russian people, Animals, Soviet Union or Soviets, Animals, dangerous
The Poem
“Wolf” is a short poem of sixteen lines divided into four quatrains. It is one of several poems written in the spring of 1931 on the same theme; they are considered by some literary historians to be variants of the same poem and are therefore known as the “Wolf cycle,” “Wolf” being the central poem. Written in the first person and in the present tense, it is, like many of Osip Mandelstam’s verses, highly autobiographical. In order to interpret the poem correctly, circumstances of Mandelstam’s life in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s must be taken...
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