In her poem, "Voronezh", Akhmatova focuses heavily on the weather. How does this assist in evoking a sense of atmosphere and emotion for the reader?

In the poem, 'Voroezh', Anna Akmatova focuses strongly on the environmental surroundings. Akmatova foucuses on the ice cold Russian winter to create a sense of atmosphere and emotions for the reader. By explaining the surroundings Akmatova uses this to engage with the reader feel as if the are seeing what Akmatova is seeing and feeling.The first few lines within her poem describe the landscape and the weather, "the town is frozen solid...trees, walls, snow, beneath the glass. Over crystal, on slippery tracks of ice..." Akmatova wrote and dedicated this Osip Mandelshtam who had been exiled to Voronezh for writing a poem critical of Stalin.
Akmatova mentions the field of Kulikovo, of which she discribes a "battleground" Akmatova could be using this comparison of the battle to the battle of words to create a metaphor for what she was going through at the time. A moral battle of which she and many other poets would have found themselves in Russia at the time. Towards the end of the poem Akmatova creates a comparison between the happy moment of a wedding and then to a miserable feel when she mentions the execusion of Mandelshtam,"But Fear and the Muse take turns to guard the room where the exiled poet it banised". In these lines from the poem, Akmatova explains how she had written another poem for Mandelshtam that she called 'Fear and the Muse' who had been executed because he had written a poem that had gone agaisnt Stalin's beliefs, and was banished from Russia.