Question

The speaker of this poem lists “the lime trees’ agitated shade” and “the thin cricket-sound / of consolation’s parting word” after realizing that “nothing I counted mine, out of my life, is mine to take.” This poem ends by imagining a monument depicting (10[1])the speaker crying tears of melted snow. This poem considers how “Mary Magdalene beat her breast and sobbed” after Jesus urges, “Mother, I beg you, do not weep for me.” (10[1])A woman “with lips blue from cold” (10[2])asks (10[1])this poem’s speaker (10[1])“can (10[1])you (-5[1])describe (10[1])this?” (10[1])as they wait in line outside a prison in this poem’s first section, “Instead of a Preface.” (10[2])This poem’s (10[1])penultimate section, (10[1])“Crucifixion,” alludes to the arrest of the author’s son Lev by the (10[1]-5[1])NKVD. (-5[1])For 10 points, name this long elegiac poem with a musical title by Anna Akhmatova ■END■ (0[7])

ANSWER: Requiem” [or “Rekviem”]
<HG, European Literature>
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