Ideological analysis of Akhmatova's poem "Prayer"

The analysis of Akhmatova's poem "Prayer" is appropriatebegin with a replica of her great contemporary - Osip Mandelstam. Once he noticed that the poetry of Anna Andreevna is close to becoming one of the symbols of Russia's greatness. The poet's mission became the defining, profound meaning of her life.

Background of the creation, genre analysis of the poem "Prayer"

Akhmatova wrote this little lyricalwork in 1915, during the most difficult years of the First World War, on the fronts of which her husband, the poet Nikolai Gumilev, fought with the enemy. The war, of course, was the tragedy of the century, and this was especially felt by the people of art. And it was they who were tormented by a sense of guilt for not being able to resist the spiritual and moral downfall expressed in the "apocalyptic" slaughter that engulfed the world and destroyed Russia.

This composition is small, in eight lines,The poem corresponds to the genre claimed in his title: Prayer. This is truly a trustful and ardent conversion to God, a plea that begins with a culmination. The lyrical heroine sacrifices the most expensive for the sake of the prosperity of the motherland. She asks God for "bitter years of illness", intensifying her plea with expressive details: "breathing, insomnia, fever." Then the poet's muse goes even further - asks Gd: "Othy and child, and friend." At last, she is ready to sacrifice the most expensive: "a mysterious song gift" in exchange for the desired miraculous transformation, "the cloud over dark Russia has become a cloud in the glory of the rays." The poetic antithesis of the cloud over the country and clouds in the glory of the rays appeals to the biblical opposition, where the first is the metaphor of the evil, death-carrying force (as in Ezekiel's book, chapter 38, page 9), and the second is addressed to Christ sitting in a cloud of glory.

An analysis of Akhmatova's poem "Prayer": the power of a patriotic impulse

Anna Andreevna was a deeply religious person andwell understood the power of what was said in the prayer of the word. What was the spiritual tension that broke into these expressive lines? Internal struggle, throwing, doubts are all behind, and now this sacrificial liturgical petition sounds. She could not but realize that all that was said would come to pass. And it came true.

A peace agreement was signed, the warended - though not a glory for Russia, but the preservation of millions of lives, rest after long exhausting days and nights. And soon a revolution broke out, a civil war. The husband of Akhmatova, Nikolai Gumilev, was shot on the fictitious verdict for communication with the White Guards, her son was arrested. The personal tragedy was aggravated by the horror of the bloody terror of the Bolsheviks. It was what Anna Akhmatova wrote about. "Prayer" (an analysis of the poem confirms this) not only demonstrated the power of the poetic word, but confirmed the peculiarity that distinguishes the poems of this profound poet: the ability to go beyond the intimate psychological sphere and rise to the poetic declaration of love in its global manifestation. This is true patriotism and a real piercing love for your country.

Lyrical language

One did not take God from Akhmatova - an originalpoetic gift, which became the precious property of Russia, which she loved so much. A characteristic feature of her lyrics is a dialogue with an imaginary interlocutor. This artistic technique is present in her early poems, in which the lyrical heroine is explained to the beloved or describes her inner state. An analysis of Akhmatova's poem "Prayer" makes it clear: now in its creative range there is a new scale and intonation. But poetics does not change. There is still an invisible interlocutor who knows all her secrets and details of life and who has the power to decide her fate. And the same concise and imaginative as in all previous and subsequent verses, the final of the work is: a visually tangible and amazing beauty picture of a magnificent and familiar metamorphosis for every person, when a gloomy cloud suddenly pierces from inside the sun's rays, and it suddenly turns into a dazzlingly shining cloud.

Finally

In the work of Anna Andreevna Akhmatova are inseparableword, faith and love. She understood Christian love in a broadly Christian way: this is a trembling relationship between two people, and a hot, sacrificial love for the homeland and people. An analysis of Akhmatova's poem "Prayer" once brought the poet Naum Korzhavin to the conclusion that her lyrics give an opportunity to call this great woman in the full sense of the word a folk poet.