Паэзiя Наталлi Арсенневай ваеннага часу
The wartime poetry of Natalia Arsienniewa

Summary/Abstract: The wartime poetry of Belarussian emigre poet Natalia Arsienniewa has a significant placenot only in her literaly output, but also in the whole Belarussian literature. This type of work is theleast explored in artistic biography of the poet. During the war, Natalia Arsienniewa departs frompoetising nature typical for the pre-war period. At that time she focuses all her attention on thedescription of war surrounding the tragic realities of everyday life. Then in her poems dominateso-called: poems-calls to compatriots, poems-apostrophes to Homeland, as well as reflectionsabout human existence, including the fate of the poet. A kind of poetic summary of this period isa collection of poems Siahonnia, released in 1944 in Minsk.

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