A review by moswanky
Akhmatova: Poems by Anna Akhmatova

3.0

Akhmatova’s poetry is split into two periods, and you can definitely see distinct differences in subject and overall depth of feeling. I prefer her later work. Her earlier period focused on love and its anguishes, while her later work concentrated on the war and especially on her sufferings under Stalin.
She uses a lot of nature imagery in both periods, but definitely increases her use of literary and historical works and characters in the later period.
I just am not a huge poetry fan on my best day, so 3 stars.