How Ratushinskaya Depicts Her Suffering
Irina Georgina Ratushinskaya was born in Odessa, Ukraine on the 4th
march 1954. She grew up in Soviet Russia and came in conflict with it
at an early age unable to adapt to the lack of freedom. Ratushinskaya
spent many years of her life in soviet labour camps for the
manufacture and dissemination of her poems. Although Irina
Ratushinskaya suffered beatings, force feeding and solitary
confinement in brutal, freezing conditions. She never stopped
believing that what she was doing was right. Irina Ratushinskaya had
read western books which threatened the soviet regime because it
showed a more accurate picture of history than what Russian books
portrayed.
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She once said that
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"The calling of a true poet is to speak the truth even though it may
not be a subjective truth"
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This shows her determination to survive the regime. She never allowed
the regime to stop her writing poetry.
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Her poetry tells us the suffering she went through in the labour
camps, but also how the regime could never bring her to defeat. Two
examples of her poetry which show this well are "I will live and
survive" and "I will travel through the land". Both poems are
different as they explain different aspects of being in a labour camp,
however they both show the same themes and issues. In "I will live and
survive" she is explaining the physical torture she went through and
in "I...
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and that it is the most ancient of traditions even though words cannot
be ancient. This is a good use of metaphorical techniques.
The tone of the poem is very serious and uses a semantic field of
words which depict violence and which overload you with inhumane
images.
Overall throughout both poems Irina Ratushinskaya shows the harshness
and heart aches in the camps. In "I will travel through the land" it
is the mental suffering and how she misses her family, which is
depicted. It is the physical suffering that is described in "I will
live and survive". Although they talk about different aspects of life
in the camps they give us as readers an insight. Her determination and
persistence to fight the regime plays a big part in both poems giving
the reader hope that this type of regime can be beaten.
'Birdsong ', at the core of its narrative, contains an escalating presentation of suffering that is used to illuminate the extent of human depravity encountered in the First World War. Faulks continually deconstructs ideas about suffering to force the reader to contemplate its totality: he initially depicts suffering through a loss of emotion, when moving from the 1910s to the war period. This is heightened, in later war sections, into a complete loss of compassion and human empathy, reflecting the social and emotional transformation caused by World War One. Faulks dogma is defined by his structure, as he presents humankind’s inner callousness and
“I can sing a true song about myself, tell of my travels” (Line 1-2) and in this lyric poem
In the book Sofia Petrovna, the author Lydia Chukovskaya writes about Sofia Petrovna and her dreadful experiences as a widowed mother during the Russian Stalinist Terror of the 1930s. There were four basic results of the Russian Stalinist Terror: first, it was a way of keeping people in order; second, it kept Stalin in power and stopped revolutions from forming, made people work harder to increase the output of the economy, and separated families as well as caused deaths of many innocent people due to false charges.
“New Poet Laureate Philip Levine's 'Absolute Truth'.” NPR Books. n.p., 14 August 2011. Web. 7 Feb. 2014.
Pain and Suffering “To live is to suffer, To survive is to find meaning in the suffering”. What is a tragedy? Tragedy is, an event causing great suffering, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe. Tragedy started in Ancient Greek and evolved into religious ceremonies. Shyamalan painted a harsh image of tragedy when he made the movie Signs, he showed that you have to have faith and family to get through tragic events.
...us 75.1 (Jan. 1991): 150-159. Rpt. in Poetry Criticism. Ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau. Vol. 58. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Literature Resource Center. Web. 25 Feb. 2011.
The ethical life of the poem, then, depends upon the propositions that evil. . . that is part of this life is too much for the preeminent man. . . . that after all our efforts doom is there for all of us” (48).
Poetry is often forgotten in our society. Poetry is mistaken for something less than its greater meaning. Four specific poets demonstrate the true meaning of poetry through their words and imagery. These poets use their own language to speak to us in poetry, by describing a major event that has happened in their life. It is truly captivating to hear these poets speak from another aspect that we are not use too.
The poem also intends the reader know how society can be affected by people acting
William Carlos Williams once said, “It is not what you say that matters, but the manner in which you say it.”(Examiner) This is a view he often incorporated into his poetry. Williams’ purpose through writing poetry was not to teach a moral, but to convey that simple things can be beautiful. Although many of Williams’ poems show this beauty in simplicity, a few good examples are The Red Wheel Barrow, The Great Figure, and Young Sycamore.
The poem expresses the tension between individuals and society. Authorities dominate our lives. We form our beliefs by listening to the opinions of not only priests, but politicians and other leaders in society as well. We absorb their ideals like a sponge. This has been a common trait of humanity ever since the agricultural revolution brought the division of labor and management positions into culture. Someone had to be on top and in charge. Those who listen to authorities are almost living their life as if they are asleep. They spend their days helpless and arrogant, unwilling to waken to an enlightening truth about society. A truth that says individuals have a say in what their live is about. The people who spend their days asleep accept the values and ideas that their society has set for them as they dream of the better days in the future that will never
The Poet wants everyone to not be like this, she expects them to be there for the needy, the helpless, no matter the cost, no matter the odds. And I believe this is the true spirit of human nature.
“Letters to a Young Poet” by Rainer Maria and “Black Swan Green” by David Mitchell are similar stories in which two poets seek out advice from experienced people in the poetry community. The advice that the poets receive, refer to the need of having an individual perspective rather than having a multitude of perspectives from numerous outside opinions. This leads to a creation of a central idea within both passages that develop further into the conclusion of the advice both poets receive. The advice of both passages draws on the idea that beauty is naturally present within the poet and the poet's nature in relationship with his work and not in an abomination of outside opinions.
Let us begin by recognizing that one comes to a poem--or ought to come- -in openness and expectancy and acceptance. For a poem is an adventure, for both the poet and the reader: a venture into the as yet-unseen, the as-yet unexperienced. At the heart of it is the notknowing. It is search. It is discovery. It is existence entered. "You are lost the instant you know what the result will be," says the painter Juan Gris, speaking or and to painters. But what he is speaking of is true of art in general, is as appropriate to poetry as to painting. What he is reminding us of is the need to remain open to discovery, to largess--the need to give over our desire to define, to interpret, to reduce, to translate, We need to remind ourselves, in short, that in a poem we find the world happening not as concept but as percept. It is the world happening. The world becoming. The world allowed to be--itself. Another way of putting the same thing, this time from the per-spective of thinking (the perspective of the mind in its engagement of the world), would be to say that the poem is an enactment of thinking itself: the mind in motion. Not merely a collection of thoughts, but rather the act of thought itself, the mind in action. The poem is not trying to be about something, it is trying to be something. It is trying to incorporate, to realize. Not ideas about the thing, writes Wallace Stevens, but the thing itself. As Denise Levertov has said, "The substance, the means, of an art, is am incarnation--not reference but phenomenon."
This poem explains how you should stay a true friend to others. That if you have true friends that they’ll stay true to you at all times. And that if they aren’t your true friends they’ll soon part from you. Then, you’ll see who your true friends at the end were. Neither should you allow other people to run over you or use you. To have a mind of your own and toalsothink for yourself.