How Ratsushinskaya Depicts Her Suffering in Her Poetry
Irina Ratsushinkaya was born in Ukrainian on the 4th March 1954.
She grew up in Soviet Russia and from an early age rebelled against
the strict regime unable to adopt to lack of freedom. In Russia
freedom of speech was also forbidden, as there was a great threat to
the Russian Soviet if people started expressing political heresies.
This was hard for Ratushinskaya as she was a poet, influenced by the
fact that she loved literature and art. However, she believed in
having the right to speak her own mind and her poetry played a big
part in her life. Ratushinskaya was eventually arrested for writing
poetry, as she still persisted in fighting the strict regime. In the
Soviet hard labour camp where she was imprisoned Ratsushinskaya
suffered beatings, force-feeding and solitary confinement in brutal
freezing conditions and became so gravely ill that many feared that
she would not survive her sentence. She once said, "The calling of a
poet is to speak the truth, even though it may be a subjective truth."
Which shows her determination to survive the regime, and how it would
never make her stop writing her poetry.
Irina Ratushinskaya has written many poems, most of which portray her
will to survive and also the torture she went through in the camp. Two
examples of her poetry that show this well are, 'I will Travel Through
the land' and 'I will Live and Survive'. These two poems are different
as they explain different aspects of being in a labour camp, however
they both depict suffering and focus on some of the same themes.
In 'I will Travel Trough the Land', Irina Ratushinskaya uses...
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...w her determination and the strong perseverance, which she
holds. Although the two poems are different they both use descriptive
verbs and show how Ratushinskaya tried to convince herself that the
prison did not affect her. However in certain places in her poetry it
can be seen that she is missing her family and that she is being
haunted by old memories she doesn't want to get caught up in. She uses
poetic devices such as caesura, enjambment and a semantic field of war
to demonstrate her emotions, without actually telling the reader how
she is feeling. Irina Ratushinskaya can be quite informative about her
ordeal, giving the reader detailed events, in which she went through.
In conclusion Ratushinskaya's suffering is depicted in both poems in
an effective way, allowing the reader to relate to what she is going
through.
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