Everything
Everything’s looted, betrayed and
traded,
black death’s wing’s overhead.
Everything’s eaten by hunger,
unsated,
so why does a light shine ahead?
By day, a mysterious wood, near
the town,
breathes out cherry, a cherry
perfume.
By night, on July’s sky, deep,
and transparent,
new constellations are thrown.
And something miraculous will
come
close to the darkness and ruin,
something no-one, no-one, has
known,
though we’ve longed for it since we
were children.
Anna Akhmatova
When
reading Anna Akhmatova I was very interested in her poetry because it was about
her life and the struggles she was going through. This poem, “Everything” I
found interesting because it describes her feelings in only a few stanzas. In
the first stanza it talks about how everything is betrayed and traded. It then
mentions why does the light shine ahead? When reading this I found that she is discussing
how everyone and everything is being betrayed and everything bad is going on
right now, so why continue to keep going each day. When reading this poem the
tone is very deep and sad. I feel like Akamatova wanted to explain to her
readers that she didn’t want to live after what she has been feeling and living
with. She mentions, “black deaths wing overhead” I took this as her not knowing
if she wants to live if this is what her life is going to be like.
As
she continues on with the poem she starts thinking about her town and how day
by day it might start to become better. She explains this by talking about the
mysterious wood and cherry perfume. I think that she wants to realize the
reasons why she wants to live and what she is living for. She then goes on to
discuss the new constellations. I think that this allowed her to find something
new each night and realize that something new can come out of living her life.
When
I get to the last stanza of the poem she talks about how something miraculous
will come, something that could be like the constellations. I think she is
starting to realize that she lived her life and something good will come out of
it if she lives it to the fullest. She ends her poem with saying, “though we’ve
longed for it since children”. I think she makes her point here with the poem
saying that everyone has lived this hard life since children so if they just
deal with everything, something will change. I found that when reading this
poem I found it being about herself and her struggles with everything she has
to go through. I think she also wants to
hope for the best and believe that with waiting and pain and suffering that
everything will change just like they had been all waiting their whole life.
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