Though rooted firmly in the nineteenth-century Russian poetic tradition, Vladislav Khodasevich is an eminently modernist poet, both thematically and compositionally. His poetic images range from the agricultural to the urban; his themes move from the trappings of modern living to the split between the body and soul; he addresses in turn memory, the poetic process, exile. Here, Brooks provides a close reading of the poem "Okna vo dvor" as a particularly striking case of Khodasevich's innovative and provocative treatment of the exilic experience. He contends that "Okna vo dvor" contains an economy of voyeurism that enacts the complex of operations, put forward by Freud, wherein the seeing-subject and the seen-object undergo a series of shifts between activity and passivity.