Question

Analyze Boris Pasternaks mixed emotions about his current state of affairs in the nobel prize. What conclusions can you draw about how living under censorship affected him?

Answer 1

Boris Pasternak felt conflicted emotions when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, because for any writer it would be a great honour to be internationally recognized, however, it became the reason for him to be viciously maligned by the Soviet authorities, that he went through a tremendous psychological pressure and for that reason, sadly, he was forced to decline the prize later on. 
Living under censorship forced him to curb his previously unchained artistic tendencies, while his early poetries were full of imagined possibilities that are beyond reality, under the Soviet censorship, his poetry was subdued and he had to change from his lyrical style to the epic style of poetry that the Soviet authorities promoted. And wherein he detested one of his work, entitled "Second Birth", because he had to compromise his standards, simplifying the language to appeal to the masses.