Leningrad Cemetry, Winter of 1941

Explication of Leningrad Cemetery, Winter of 1941 This verse is intimately the World War ? especially in Leningard(1941. 09. 081944. 01. 18) in winter of 1941. Leningrad which is at a time St. Petersburg is once former capital of Russia and Russian Revolution so it was strategically important place for Hitler to have struggle with. German army besieging this city almost 900 days and over 650,000 people argon fallen from this war because of starvation, exposure, disease and so on. However, Leningrad did not surrender against the enemy and exile all wakelessships and difficulties, later called city of hero.How extremely difficult and severe smirch it was in World war ? is depicted in this poem. There be a lot of dead bo go acrosss needed to be buried simply impossible because ground is frozen and grave digger became weak from hunger. excessively coffin could not be do because there was lack of furnish to heat and forest should be used for fuel. Instead of coffin they co ntrive the corpse on the childs sled and take it to the cemetery. Child sled is the emblem of joy and happiness in winter snow scarce in the war time that kind of joy is disappeared but solo degenerated to ray of light of moving the dead body.There are some analogies with the dead. First they are metaphored as trees ball of roots when it waits to be planted and cocoons that will split down the middle(a) when the new life inside is prepared. Those are very similar to display of the dead and characteristics such as stiffness however it also contains the import of life and prosperity. In contrast, the expression of pale gauze, tapered shapes make us think of mummies. Writer tried to mummify and dehumanize the dead.Furthermore, naked calves hard as corded wood spilling office piled corpses like stiff, dry wood with no life. Contrast in the metaphors tells us that the dead once having had vivacious life and had desire to restore vitality inevitably became very cold, rigid, dila pidated dead body. From under a cloak, a hand reaching out means that they are not ready to die and want to live more. vocalizer of this poem is third person narrator so hard to sock the deads mind exactly however we could analogize their thoughts on their dying.They would want to interject back to life even if they have to eat the bread do of glue and sawdust and live in the severe cold and siege. Bread made of glue and sawdust is nonsense but it means stale bread that is so dry and hard to eat. Narrator says having a life is better than death even if it becomes hard or difficult. It shows us that they really didnt want to die in the war and life is so precious itself. It is composed of only one stanza. It makes reader to be focused on the situation that writer explain with tension.Omniscient third person narrator speaks in the poem so we could not hear their direct voice but relying on what talker says. Thesedays, there are still many threats on war outbreaks but as a generat ion not experiencing war yet, we have propensity to consider war as relatively light event and are not so alert or worrying compared to old generation. This poem reminds us with extreme hardships stealing a lot of innocent peoples lives that war can bear and arouse our attention again on the war.