This paper addresses the anti-war poems written by Vera Pavlova and Zhenya Berkovich during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. After a brief biographical overview, the analysis focuses on the poetics of war trauma and devastation in the era of the Russian-Ukrainian war, conducting a close textual analysis of several poems. The paper demonstrates how contrasting poetic depictions of the natural world simultaneously accentuate the human trauma and signal nostalgia for the peaceful past.
Olga Partan (2025) studied this question.