Grief Poetry

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This paper explores grief poetry focusing on a relatively obscure poem by Anna Akhmatova. It considers the ways in which Akhmatova carefully builds up her poem in order to express her grief to her readers.

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"The tone of the poem suits the mood. It is a serious tone. It decides not to use humor as a comic relief to then later exacerbate the tension of the grief. This is probably a good thing since this method does not always work in short poems and is probably best left to longer works or prose. Similarly, the poem lacks any undertones of any sort (such as ironic or satirical) and, again, this is probably a good thing. The poem may be taken very much at face value there are no subtle tricks or metaphors for the audience to understand, just the pure simple power of one person's grief."

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