Lots Wife, Akhmatovas Version

"Lot's wife" represents the fate of a woman following her husband's Lot who left Sodom's hometown. Sodom was a town where it was destroyed by God, but before that he permitted Lotto and his wife to escape from the city. Wislawa Szymborska and Anna Akhmatova offer different versions and perspectives on the same story. Each author is using a different poem element to create two very unique poems with some similarities and many obvious differences.

Akhmatova is by no means a traditional wife or mother, she and Gumirev are not traditional married. They lived away most of the time; one of Gumirev's strongest passions was traveling, and he participated in many African adventures. In addition, Akhmatova 's attitude towards her husband is not based on passionate love, and she has a few things during a short marriage (they divorced in 1918). "On a business trip" Someone wrote that she did not give birth to her child.Her only son, Lef Nikolaevich Gumilev, was born on September 18, 1912. Ahmatova said she She appointed her newborn to take care of her mother-in-law, Anna Ivanovna Gumileva, and the poet returned to her bohemian style Living in St. Petersburg

Akhmatova believes that her third husband, Puning, takes full advantage of the relatively spacious apartment and lives with his continued wife and his family. The placement of Fontannyi Dom is stupid, but it is typical of the Soviet lifestyle, and it suffers from the lack of space and privacy. Over the years, Akhmatova shared her dorm with her first wife, daughter and granddaughter; when she was separated from Puning in the late 1930's, she lived with her next wife. Despite the noise of this situation and general fears, Akhmatova does not care about living together, even if it is a narrow, unobtrusive and unfurnished room her gorgeous personality I have not succeeded in maintaining. Lidiia Korneevna Chukovskaia was the author and acquaintance of Akhmatova, who recorded the diary of the meeting and seized the strange contradiction between the majestic inhabitants and the devastated environment.

About the possibility of facing the city. Akhmatova's poetry depicts the theme of the poem as suggesting to the reader that she is a meaningless woman. She uses her words to suggest this. And, "Does not she seem to be so important to us?" Compared to the version of Szymborska, the speaker is actually "Lot's Wife" itself, and the view of the third party is to the reader There is no doubt about women. Szymborska used the first person perspective in her poems and gave us insight as to what the woman's heart is and why she will turn back. Lot 's wife spoke stories and her emotions in the version of Szymborska. The version of Akhmatova provides some insight about this, but it did not reach what Szymborska did. This is mainly due to the use of the first person viewpoint.