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Submitted By: Himanshu Rajpurohit

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REQUIEM AS AN ELEGY BY ANNA AKHMATOVA.

INTRODUCTION:
Requiem is a poem in which the author gives a remembers to
the souls of the dead people in the Leningrad [city in Russia].
Requiem itself is a monument which is explained by the
Akhmatova. Long back then, the Anna Akhmatova recalls her
experience in the Stalinist Terror. When her 3rd husband
Nikolai Gumilev and her beloved son Lev Gumilev got
arrested, she became so lonely, sad, despair in her life. In her
Requiem, she showed her pain of many years by writing those
words. And she prolongs the memory of it by defending the
defense against the vagueness of time. The main motive of
the Requiem poem is, to tell the world about a mother who
has been waiting for 17 months for hear from her son and to
experience to hearing to the sentence, after waiting too long
he was sentenced to death.
A requiem is either a mass for the deceased or a musical piece
to commemorate the deadpeople in their graves. It’s a
tradition to write on the occasion of a death, to serve them
acknowledge lost, and to think about the nature of the death.

Q. Describe the poem Requiem as an elegy?

 Akhmatova's Requiem would appear to have been either
a requiem or an elegy has nothing in common with, his
son has not died, in fact she explained very less about
his son personally.However, considering the absence of
funeral or eulogistic elements, it is possible to find
several of the more basic elegiac conventions in the
same pattern. The words I have been talking about,
shows the forgetting of the beloved one, typically by
death or loss in elegy, but here’s it shows arrest in
requiem by anna Akhmatova. The forever meaning, the
pathetic fallacy, of that failure, which is closely related
to the matter of death'sabsoluteness. The evolution from
sorrow to ease, and the final settlement of a mourning
tasks.Within the model of traditional elegy, the Requiem
can be understood, the particular situations of terror
often introduce a moral element to the elegiac
recollection process.The utterance of the pain of her son
and her own by Akhmatova it is a memorial to a person's
pain in the whole country.Anauthorsays, Requiem
highlights or shows "the courage and persistence of
Russian women outside the prisons of the 1930s and
lay[s] great weight on the power of poetry to record their
sufferings and to transcend them". The Akhmatova has
explained this for everyone who was suffering in the
Leningrad, for the loss of their lover and sons.
Therefore, though an elegy may be (and is usually)
caused by death. A poem is about loss, it is more
accurately described. As a consequence, the elegy's
grammatical subject, the poet, who feels the death and
not the dead, is, so to speak, who only works through
his/her absence in the poem. A tragedy of death hasnot
 change much for the victims who are suffering in the
jail, but it’s a very pathetic moment for the victim’s
family.
The confusion, ineffectiveness and unfairness that surround a
beloved family person’s arrest is a fate that makes life outside
the jail no more rewarding than arrest itself.Requiem is an
elegy by the Akhmatovawhich was made on the day of the
arrest. And the "living death" of the mother afterward. The
representations of women, which show them lacking social
qualities, represent this living death, because she lost her son
and her husband by an arrest in the Leningrad, even the
womenas isolated themselves from each other, apart from the
people who has been arrested. Although the women stand
together in line, they are unable to form a group.
Not just nature, but also the townscape and cityscape in this
far-reaching beauty.Even Russia's cultural self-identity is laid
low before suffering. Even the city and nation's mutual misery
gives the city and nation little consolation to the women,and
relief the females, but they simply arrest their sons and
husband which betrayed them.
Through her poetry she did not mentions the name of every
women, but despite of that she elegantly shows the story of
everyone including her. Akhmatova uses the picture of
spinning a fabric of words precisely. Yet she continues to
cover the void of her isolation with a veil of her own words.
Even she gave consent to the people to make her statue after
her dead, but the one thing she pleaded is to make her statue
there, where she was waiting for the longest time for her son
and for her husband, to see them to listen about their
wellbeing. She explained her pain and sorrow through her 15
poetries, that how the face of the warriors [who were waiting
for their family members] were dull and pale, in the exact way
the faces were of the dead people [victim].