Marina Tsvetaeva was a native of Moscow, a city that played a significant role in her poetry and prose. Together with Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, she is frequently considered a representative of the "Moscow branch" of twentieth-century Russian poetry,...

Issues are presented concerning the analysis of poet Marina Tsvetaeva's discourses on exile to determine her attempts to deal with her linguistic and creative isolation during her stay in Paris, France. Since discourses on exile comprise both a concrete confrontation and a simultaneous,...

The Death of a Poet: The Last Days of Marina Tsvetaeva. By IRMA KUDROVA. Trans. by MARY ANN SZPORLUK; intro. by ELLENDEA PROFFER. Woodstock, New York, and London: Overlook Duckworth. 2004. 232 pp. 20 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-58567-522-9. In The Death of...

In the following excerpt, France examines subjects, themes, and literary techniques in Tsvetaeva's poetry.

Below, Livingstone discusses Tsvetaeva's place within Russian poetry. She points out aspects of Symbolism, Acmeism, and Futurism in Tsvetaeva's verse.

In the following excerpt, Forrester explores the relationship between the female body and Moscow architecture, particularly the church, in Tsvetaeva's poetry.