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SOURCE: Amert, Susan. “Akhmatova's ‘Song of the Motherland’: Rereading the Opening Texts of Rekviem.” Slavic Review 49, no. 3 (fall 1990): 374-89.
In the following essay, Amert offers a close reading of the first two texts of Akhmatova's Requiem.
Pokoinyi Alig'eri sozdal by desiatyi krug ada.
Anna Akhmatova
Hostias et preces tibi, Domine, laudis offerimus: tu suscipe pro animabus illis, quarum hodie memoriam facimus: fac eas, Domine, de morte transire ad vitam.
the requiem mass
Anna Akhmatova's Rekviem is a deceptively simple piece. Compared to the opacity and self-conscious literariness of Poema bez geroia, Rekviem seems transparent, much like Akhmatova's early lyrics, and appears to demand little in the way of commentary or elucidation.1 Its very form and scope, however, as well as the dates of its composition (1935-1961), identify it as a product of the “later Akhmatova”—the Akhmatova who resumed writing in the mid-1930s after a decade of...
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