Classic and Contemporary Poetry

REQUIEM: EPILOGUE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO            Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have learned how faces fall to bone
Last Line: And a prison dove coo somewhere, over and over, %as the ships sail softly down the flowing neva
Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna
Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era