Poetic Generation as Viewed by Anna Akhmatova

Abstract

The article attempts to analytically describe the theme of a poetic generation in the works by Anna Akhmatova. The study considers the methodology and methods of analysis of a literary generation, proposed by V. S. Varshavsky, describing the levels in which the image of a generation can be described: its worldview, social, political, economic, as well as historical levels. However, the character of the material allowed the authors to actively use the category of creative behaviour, and, secondly, to focus on the “drama of the pronouns” in Akhmatova’s lyrical poetry as one of the methods of the generational theme realization, and on the poetics of incompleteness that characterises her later works, where one can find the new things that Akhmatova introduced into the Russian literary tradition when developing the topic of literary generations. Following the analysis, the authors conclude that in her later works, whose value is memory, Akhmatova insists on the repeatability and, as a consequence, the incompleteness of life, fate, and poetry, which manifest themselves in new generations over and over again. In this sense, Akhmatova’s creative behaviour and her poetry modify the Russian tradition of reflection on the fate of every poetic generation as exceptionally tragic that directly refers to her poetic concept of the invincibility of the poetic word.

Keywords

• Анна Ахматова
• поэтическое поколение
• творческое поведение
• «судьба местоимений»
• память
• поэтика незавершенного.