Osip Mandelstam: Poems
Can I have an analysis of the poem " You took away all my oceans"?
written in exile , Voronezh 1935. TRANS. Clarence BROWN and W.S Merwin
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This is a very short poem filled with darkness and a sense of desperation. In the poem, the poet is referring to space.... a world that has been reduced by death and the size of his grave.
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"You took away all the oceans and all the room"
