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Requiem: Heart-Wrenching “Mass Song” Or A Smoke Screen?, Marie Peteuil
Requiem: Heart-Wrenching “Mass Song” Or A Smoke Screen?, Marie Peteuil
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Research in progress for ENGL 2333: World Literature II
Faculty Mentor: W. Scott Cheney, Ph.D.
In an 1870 letter, Emily Dickinson described poetry this way: “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way?” During the twentieth century, the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova wrote poetry that embodies Dickinson’s intense definition. My …