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INTRODUCTION:
Requiem is a poem in which the author gives a remembers to
the souls of the dead people in the Leningrad [city in Russia].
Requiem itself is a monument which is explained by the
Akhmatova. Long back then, the Anna Akhmatova recalls her
experience in the Stalinist Terror. When her 3rd husband
Nikolai Gumilev and her beloved son Lev Gumilev got
arrested, she became so lonely, sad, despair in her life. In her
Requiem, she showed her pain of many years by writing those
words. And she prolongs the memory of it by defending the
defense against the vagueness of time. The main motive of
the Requiem poem is, to tell the world about a mother who
has been waiting for 17 months for hear from her son and to
experience to hearing to the sentence, after waiting too long
he was sentenced to death.
A requiem is either a mass for the deceased or a musical piece
to commemorate the deadpeople in their graves. It’s a
tradition to write on the occasion of a death, to serve them
acknowledge lost, and to think about the nature of the death.