... Introduction to Russian Poetry The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry presents the major themes, forms, genres, and styles of Russian poetry Using examples from Russia’s greatest poets, Michael ... Lermontov’s death, Russian poetry went into relative decline It was not so much that great poets ceased to exist as that the sudden emergence of prose made poets less numerous and poetic interaction ... landscape of Russian poetry On the one hand, poets experienced an unprecedented sense of freedom For the first time in Russian history, censorship was abolished For the first time in living memory, poets...
... have: Ukrainian [khokhlatskaia] or Russian I only know that I would grant primacy neither to a Little Russian over a Russian nor to a Russian over a Little Russian Both natures are generously ... part of Russia, just as he viewed Little Russian culture as an organic part of Russian culture Gogol considered himself a Russian [russkii chelovek] and a Russian writer, who united, however, in ... term for a Russian, russkii From early on, Russian nationalism and imperialism formed a peculiar hybrid The complexity of Russian nationalism owes much to the unique nature of the Russian empire...
... Pound: In a Station of the Metro Word Choice in Poetry The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough Because of their brevity, poets are especially careful about word choice ... whether a poem is free verse or a sonnet But knowing these poetic forms and techniques can help you better understand the poems you read In poetry more than any other type of literature, form is ... Stanzas Because poems are written in verse, poets must decide how much information belongs on each line and when those lines should be broken into stanzas (poetic “paragraphs”) First, it’s important...