акмеизм Group of Russian poets about 19101920 Also called the Guild of Poets Focused on clarity direct images in compact poems rather than symbolism Met in St Petersburg at the Stray Dog Café ID: 410301
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Acmeism акмеизмGroup of Russian poets about 1910-1920Also called the “Guild of Poets”Focused on clarity; direct images in compact poems rather than symbolismMet in St. Petersburg at the “Stray Dog Café”Title from the Greek – highest point, best, perfectionConcrete ideas – not abstract Importance of the individualRaw & realistic Slide2
Mikhail Kuzmin (1872-1936)Nikolay S. Gumilev (1886-1921)
Sergei
Gorodetsky
(1884-1967)
Osip
E. Mandelstam(1891-1938)
Anna
Akhmatova
(1889-1966)Georgii V. Ivanov(1894-1958)Slide3
Influences:Innokentiy Fyodorovich Annensky (1855-1909) Russian poetJoseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) British poetPierre Jules Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) French poetAlexander Pope (1688-1744) British poetSlide4
My own dream is lofty, simple thing:To seize the oar, put feet into the stirrups,And to deceive the time, that slow tries to stir us, By kissing lips, forever new and pink;When getting old, to keep the law of Christ,Cast down looks, put on sackcloth and ashes,Put on the chest, as heavy obligations, The iron Cross, that He died on for us.And only when, amidst the orgy’s madness, I get my senses – a sleepwalker aimless,
Just frightened in the silence of his ways –
Then I recall: the worst of many others –
I had no children from a woman in my years
And never called a man a brother.
Don Juanby Nikolay StepanovichGumilevSlide5
Alone I stare into the frost’s white face. It’s going nowhere, and I—from nowhere. Everything ironed flat, pleated without a wrinkle: Miraculous, the breathing plain. Meanwhile the sun squints at this starched poverty—The squint itself consoled, at ease . . . The ten-fold forest almost the same . . . And snow crunches in the eyes, innocent, like clean bread. by Osip MandelstamJanuary 16, 1937“Only in Russia is poetry respected—it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?” — Osip
MandelstamSlide6
On liubil tri veshchi na svete:Za vechernei pen’e, belykh pavlinovI stertye karty Ameriki
.
Ne
liubil
, kogda plachut deti,
A ia byla ego zhenoi.He loved three things in life:Evensong, white peacocksAnd old maps of America.He hated it when children cried, And I was his wife.
Anna
AkhmatovaSlide7
Nikto nam ne khotel pomoch’Za to, chto my ostalis’ doma,Za to, chto, gorod svoi
liubia
,
A ne
krylatuiu svododu,My sokhranili
dlia sebiaEgo dvortsy, ogon’ i vodu.No one wants to help usBecause we stayed home,Because, loving our cityAnd not winged freedom,We preserved for ourselvesIts palaces, its fire and water.
Anna
Akhmatova
She chose to stay in Russia, but
lost her freedom.