{"id":946,"date":"2020-04-07T22:10:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T22:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/?p=946"},"modified":"2020-04-08T04:29:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T04:29:01","slug":"marina-tsvetaeva-an-intimate-poet-poem-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/lmcnett\/marina-tsvetaeva-an-intimate-poet-poem-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Marina Tsvetaeva: An Intimate Poet-Poem Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"

While reading the various poets assigned, I was \u00a0intrigued by Tsvetaeva\u2019s poems, in particular how she directly inserted herself into the poems and how she personified poetry itself.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From the first poem we were assigned titled \u201cFor my poems\u201d, I was immediately struck by how Tsvetaeva is addressing her work directly–speaking to her poems as they were her children.\u00a0 In addition I was struck by a seeming role reversal in \u201cFor my poems\u201d, as it seemed like the poems themselves were overpowering Tsvetaeva rather than her creating them. She remarks, \u201cPoems storming inside me, invading like some tiny demons\u201d and that she wrote down these poems when she \u201cdid not know I was a poet\u201d. To me, this created an intimacy between the poet and her work I have not experienced, and it made the poems even more impactful to read.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Going back to my comment about how it seemed as if Tsvetaeva thought of her poems as \u2018children\u2019 I was validated and further intrigued by her poem titled, \u201cEvery poem is a child of love\u201d. \u00a0 However (and I think this poem would be fascinating to discuss further), she compares her poems to a \u201cwaif born illegitimately…set at the mercy of the wind\u201d–what does she mean by this? Again, I think further discussion on this poem would be fascinating. In all, I just found Tsvetaeva\u2019s commentary on her own poems interesting and it was unlike other poems I have read.<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, I thought that Tsvetaeva’s blatant allusions to herself in her poems was interesting as well, particularly in \u201cMuch like me\u201d and \u201cLonging for the motherland\u201d.\u00a0 Her use of first-person as well as detailed descriptions almost make it seem as though we are entering Tsvetaeva\u2019s mind as her perspective in her own voice from her own point of view is being presented to us.\u00a0 I found that technique resulted in a different, much more stimulating experience while reading her poems. \u00a0I felt as though I was actually beginning to experience something in someone else\u2019s mind. I\u2019m not sure if that makes sense, but I thought the relationship she establishes between herself and her work is extremely powerful. <\/span><\/p>\n

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While reading the various poets assigned, I was \u00a0intrigued by Tsvetaeva\u2019s poems, in particular how she directly inserted herself into the poems and how she personified poetry itself.\u00a0\u00a0 From the first poem we were assigned titled \u201cFor my poems\u201d, I was immediately struck by how Tsvetaeva is addressing her work directly–speaking to her poems as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1024,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unit-9-the-silver-age-and-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1024"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}