The Russian poetry of the second half of the 20th century was somewhat separated from the world literature at the time. The reason for that was the censorship of literature conducted by the Soviet Union and the influence of the recent war events on poets. Russian literature was dominated by socialist realism, the art method defined by the Society of the Writers of the USSR. Socialist realism, or socrealism, implied a renunciation of modernism and avant-garde and all their art movements. The Russian poetry of the Second World War can be divided into following periods: the poetry of the war years, the first postwar decade, the period of thaw, the period of downtime, and the literature of the new wave and the third wave of Russian emigration. Because of the severe censorship, the writers themselves printed and secretly spread their work, and that kind of literary work was called samizdat. If the work is printed and secretly spread outside the borders of the Soviet Union, it is called tamizdat. Mentioned periods were marked by the theme of war in poetry. For the war and post-war period of Russian poetry is important to mention the development of narrative poetry. Some of the other important phenomena of that time are the generation of the sixties, poetry of poet veterans, flourishing of poetry in the period of thaw, stagnation in the period of downtime, the development of silent and extravagant (loud) lyricism, and the emergence of authors poems spreading on magnitudo records – magnitizdats. a A veteran poet who voluntarily left for war, Boris Mihajlovic Borin, was taken as an exemplary example for the poetry of the second half of the twentieth century. The theme of war has an important place in his creative work, both in prose and in poetry. In this graduation thesis is quoted his song Live voices, along with the adaptation, and the analysis of both the adaptation and the poem.