A magnificent love poem by Anna Akhmatova, which leaves an indelible mark on the soul and heart of people in love.
Reading Hamlet
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At the cemetery to the right was a wasteland dusting,
And behind him the river was blue.
You told me: "Well, go to the monastery
Or marry a fool ... "
Princes always say that
But I remembered this speech, -
Let it flow for a hundred centuries in a row
An ermine mantle from the shoulders.
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And as if by mistake
I said, "You ..."
Illuminated the shadow of a smile
Lovely features.
From such reservations
Everyone's gaze flashes ...
I love you like forty
Affectionate sisters.
The poetic style of Akhmatova herself was distinguished by a vivid combination of the concreteness of verbal images and an amazing laconicism with renewed rhythms. The famous literary critic V. Zhirmunsky compared Akhmatova's work with the musical art of K. Debussy. The main, although not the only theme of Anna Andreevna's poems is love.
She published her first collection of poems in 1912. In 1914, the second collection "Rosary" was published, which consolidated the opinion about the true poetic talent of Akhmatova. In 1917, the next collection appeared under the title "White Flock", in 1921 - "Plantain", and in 1922 - the famous collection "MCMXXI", which reflected all the notes of Anna Andreevna's feelings and grief associated with the shooting of her husband Nikolai Gumilyov.
After that, starting in 1922, all published collections of Akhmatova were subjected to the most severe censorship by the Soviet government. And in August 1946, by the Decree of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, the work of Anna Akhmatova was condemned due to the inconsistency with the ideals of socialist construction.
Only in 1959 did Akhmatova's poems begin to appear in Soviet magazines again. It was only at the end of the 1980s that her poems began to be published completely without censorship.
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova left this world on March 5, 1966 in a serious illness and was buried in Komarovo.
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Anna Akhmatova often liked to repeat that some episodes of her life were once described in world literature. Indeed, nothing is new under the moon, especially when it comes to the relationship of two people. In any case, the poetess was able to draw a parallel between Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and her own novel with Nikolai Gumilyov, finding a lot of similarities in how the relationship between fictional characters and real people develops, which she reflected in her work "Reading Hamlet".
Gumilyov did several times
Akhmatova's proposal and invariably received a refusal, since the poetess was not interested in marriage, dreaming only of the literary field. In this respect, she, like Hamlet, is obsessed with the idea of seeing a ghost, and is well aware that only poetry can give her answers to vital questions. But on the way to the cherished heights every now and then there is a real and tangible person who is also obsessed with the dream of winning the heart of Akhmatova. Therefore, the image of Hamlet has similar features with Gumilev. The poetess emphasizes this, addressing him with the phrase: "Only princes always say that."
But in the plot that is written
By life itself, events develop differently. Gumilyov prophesies the Akhmatova monastery if she does not agree to marry a fool, by which he means himself. The poetess will remember these words for the rest of her life and will return to what was said a little later, when she goes down the aisle with their author. But this will happen in another year, during which many different events will happen, including Gumilyov's unsuccessful suicide attempts. In the meantime, Akhmatova enjoys her own freedom and can openly admit to an obsessive admirer that she does not feel anything for him but friendship. “I love you like forty affectionate sisters,” the poet notes. At the same time, she allows herself some liberties in communicating with Gumilev and gives him false hopes, which she will later regret. After all, the words of this person will subsequently turn out to be prophetic. Akhmatova has to make a difficult choice: to allow the death of a person and, repenting for this, go to a monastery, or become the wife of a person whom she considers her brother. The second option seems to her less scary and tragic, although Akhmatova suggests that creating a family in her case is not the most reasonable decision. Nevertheless, just like Hamlet, she will have to answer the difficult question of whether to be or not to be, not realizing that either of the two options is wrong.
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At the cemetery to the right was a wasteland dusting,
And behind him the river was blue.
You told me: “Well, go to the monastery
Or marry a fool ... "
Princes always say that
But I remembered this speech, -
Let it flow for a hundred centuries in a row
An ermine mantle from the shoulders.
And as if by mistake
I said, "You ..."
Illuminated the shadow of a smile
Lovely features.
From such reservations
Everyone's gaze flashes ...
I love you like forty
Affectionate sisters.
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Anna Akhmatova she often liked to repeat that some episodes of her life were once described in world literature. Indeed, nothing is new under the moon, especially when it comes to the relationship of two people. In any case, the poetess was able to draw a parallel between Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and her own novel with Nikolay Gumilyov, having found a lot of similarities in how the relationship between fictional characters and real people develops, which she reflected in her work.
He made an offer several times and was invariably refused, since the poetess was not interested in marriage, dreaming only of the literary field. In this respect, she, like Hamlet, is obsessed with the idea of seeing a ghost, and is well aware that only poetry can give her answers to vital questions. But on the way to the cherished heights every now and then there is a real and tangible person who is also obsessed with the dream of winning the heart of Akhmatova. Therefore, the image of Hamlet has similar features with Gumilev. The poetess emphasizes this, addressing him with the phrase: "Only princes always say this."
But in the plot, which is written by life itself, events develop in a different way. Gumilyov prophesies the Akhmatova monastery if she does not agree to marry a fool, by which he means himself. The poetess will remember these words for the rest of her life and will return to what was said a little later, when she goes down the aisle with their author. But this will happen in another year, during which many different events will happen, including Gumilyov's unsuccessful suicide attempts. In the meantime, Akhmatova enjoys her own freedom and can openly admit to an obsessive admirer that she does not feel anything for him but friendship. “I love you like forty affectionate sisters,” the poet notes. At the same time, she allows herself some liberties in communicating with Gumilev and gives him false hopes, which she will later regret. After all, the words of this person will subsequently turn out to be prophetic. Akhmatova has to make a difficult choice: to allow the death of a person and, repenting for this, go to a monastery, or become the wife of a person whom she considers her brother. The second option seems to her less scary and tragic, although Akhmatova suggests that creating a family in her case is not the most reasonable decision. Nevertheless, just like Hamlet, she will have to answer the difficult question of whether to be or not to be, not realizing that either of the two options is wrong.
For analysis, I chose a poem I liked, namely "Reading Hamlet" by Anna Akhmatova.
The first two lines of the poem "At the cemetery to the right a wasteland was dusting ..." evoke darkness and melancholy, a cemetery and a wasteland are the main elements of this description.
In this poem, the narration comes from a woman's face, more precisely, from the person of Ophelia. The work mentions scenes where Hamlet, pretending to be insane, invites Ophelia to go to a monastery. The well-known exaggerated phrase of Hamlet about the love of forty thousand brothers is also mentioned in the work, but Ophelia, as a woman, uses it in her own way and changes “brothers” to “sisters”.
It seems to me that Anna Akhmatova uses precisely these scenes, which are much important for the two main characters: Hamlet and Ophelia, because in the first scene presented they have the longest dialogue, and in the second mentioned scene Hamlet publicly confesses his love for Ophelia, albeit posthumously ...
After the phrase "Well, go to a monastery // Or marry a fool ..." She argues that the world is unchanging, almost static, that it cyclical. That the world is that people are in it. Therefore, there will be many more Ophelia and Hamlets.
After this reasoning, the main character says the word "You ..." and says that this is a slip of the tongue, but a smile flashes on her face. That is, remembering Hamlet, she realizes that she should not have done this, but from this memory she does not feel inconvenience, anxiety or unhappiness. At the end, there is a declaration of love.
In this poem, such plots are raised as, of course, the line of love of two lyrical heroes, unhappy, but not bringing misfortune.
There is also the well-known motive "to be or not to be", the motive of life and death, which runs through the whole poem, for example, by the same personification of the cemetery, static and dead, and in contrast to it - a dynamic, stormy river.