Zamyatin's "On Language" and "We"

Zamyatin's On Language discusses the concepts he thinks are necessary for good writing, he tell us that there is no actual division between poetry and prose but instead between lyrical work and epical work. Lyrical literary work would include "the revelation, the verbal portrayal, of the author's personality" whereas, epical literary work would include the "portrayal of others, external to the author". Zamyatin focuses greatly on the way language should be used in order to create good  literary works. He clearly follows these concepts in his novel, We.
Throughout the novel the reader can see that Zamyatin speaks as if he is from the time or has the same background as his characters. For example, Zamyatin writes “if this were being written by one of my hairy ancestors a thousand years ago, he probably would have described her by that funny word "mine".” This is one of the biggest concepts Zamyatin describes in On Language, "language of the milieu and period portrayed" which helps brings the reader into the atmosphere of the story line. Zamyatin could have easily used the word “mine” to describe O-90, but by doing so he would leave the milieu, or environment of We, made his own language visible, rather than the character’s language.
These concepts of using language to portray milieu, atmosphere, and the time period keeps the readers present throughout the novel as it does in We.