Voronezh by Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova's poem 'Voronezh' focuses heavily on the weather and the surroundings as it evokves the time of year and the feelings that the reader should picture. In the beginning of the poem Akhmatova focuses on the atmoshpere and landscape 'And the town is frozen solind in a vice, trees, walls, snow, beneath the glass.' The poet describes how cold the surroundings are and how noticeably still it is as everything appears to be very dead and quiet. Akhmatova describes the