Dedication By Anna Akhmatova
Under harsh regime or strict government, the people of a country can develop a sense of exile or homesickness while still in their homeland. In the poem “Dedication”, Anna Akhmatova, the author, used imagery to describe the sorrow of the people of Russia by using a common image that is universal to all. She used powerful images of rivers, forests, the sun, and mountains, because they seem so large in proportion to humans and they appear as invincible forces of nature. “- the dead, lifeless; the sun, / Lower every day; the Neva, mistier:” (18-19). The hearts of the people in Russia were weeping, longing for the Russia they grew up in and wishing for the new regime to dissolve. Usage of natural phenomenon helps clue in readers to how emotionally
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“We are everywhere the same, listening / To the scrape and turn of hateful keys / And the heavy tread of marching soldiers. / Waking early, as if for early mass, / Walking through the capital run wild, gone to seed,” (13-17). The author used the phrase “gone to seed” as a form of imagery because many people can imagine how the cities of Russia were overflowing with the presence of soldiers. Another key sense the author wrote with the incorporation of imagery is hearing. She described the scraping of keys helping readers not only visualize a soldier turning a key in a lock, but hearing the creaky sound of the key that she heard when the locks were turned. Another device the author used to clue the readers in about the discontent people outside the prison were feeling is word choice. “But prison doors stay firmly bolted” (7), the word firmly in this context means with like possibility of movement. Prison doors that are firmly shut mean that no prisoners are leaving anytime soon, no one is coming or going from the place. The author chose to use the word firmly to help readers understand the injustice of the situation and the desperate states of the families that were anxiously waiting for their loved ones locked behind bolted doors. A common theme emphasized in the poem “Dedication” by Anna Akhmatova, is the
“We are everywhere the same, listening / To the scrape and turn of hateful keys / And the heavy tread of marching soldiers. / Waking early, as if for early mass, / Walking through the capital run wild, gone to seed,” (13-17). The author used the phrase “gone to seed” as a form of imagery because many people can imagine how the cities of Russia were overflowing with the presence of soldiers. Another key sense the author wrote with the incorporation of imagery is hearing. She described the scraping of keys helping readers not only visualize a soldier turning a key in a lock, but hearing the creaky sound of the key that she heard when the locks were turned. Another device the author used to clue the readers in about the discontent people outside the prison were feeling is word choice. “But prison doors stay firmly bolted” (7), the word firmly in this context means with like possibility of movement. Prison doors that are firmly shut mean that no prisoners are leaving anytime soon, no one is coming or going from the place. The author chose to use the word firmly to help readers understand the injustice of the situation and the desperate states of the families that were anxiously waiting for their loved ones locked behind bolted doors. A common theme emphasized in the poem “Dedication” by Anna Akhmatova, is the