Friendship Comments

PART A (2) on empty talk and vanity. He suggests that friendships are often formed out of convenience or a desire for status, rather than genuine affection or compatibility.

PART A - Friendship is a thought-provoking poem that offers a more cynical and realistic perspective on human relationships. In this poem, Pushkin dismisses friendship as a superficial and self-serving bond based

PART C: "Friendship, " however, offers a more realistic perspective on human relationships and reflects the social and political context of the time, marked by widespread disillusionment and skepticism after the December 1825 rebellion

PART B: The poem points out the possibility of betrayal and exploitation within friendships, describing this as a 'bitter shame of patronage'. Interestingly, this poem stands out from Pushkin's other works, which often explore themes of love, romance, and nature.

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INDEED, WHAT IS Friendship? The hangover's faction, The gratis talk of outrage, Exchange by vanity, inaction, Or bitter shame of patronage. So well said and worded 5 Stars Full

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wonderful expression on friendship- Exchange by vanity, inaction, Or bitter shame of patronage. ///

i get a feeling that the poet was mad about something when he worte the poem

That is a great poem, good job Alexander

Emma, a seeming Russian, tells us it is a good translation. This puzzles me, because it doesn't make any sense in English at all.

A beautiful poem about friendship.

Alex nice poem man! !

Sort of saying we can have a good time but, but, lets stay on our side of the street. Have a wine - BUT? ? ? ? ? ? ?

The hangover faction, suggest that a friend is like alchohaul, a pretense of joy through chemical delusions which in the end are a futile and somewhat painful enchantment, that would have been wise to take in moderation. In an era were facebook makes friends out of people we have no personal knowledge of other than a cursory and superficial pleasantries, it suggest that connections are doomed if they exists as surface niceness. A true friend is someone who goes beyond the exchange of vanity and inaction and is one who listens and excepts one through the worst times. That is a friend and Pushkin is merrily elucidating the qualities of what a friend is not, but which we generally go by.

What's friendship to Pushkin? Its very basis he throws into question, implying we have two faces.

Though he got a thumbs down, i agree with kevin shaw. We expect the relationship of friendship to be some sort of strong bond, but it is often a weak bond dressed up temporaily as something strong. patronage. but friendship is indeed a relationship to honor. no matter our friends inperfections, even when they are to the point of disgust. for we all have these points and all are in need of fiends. friendship translates in every language.

I wonder why Puskin did not have the question ‘What's friendship? ’ as the title of the poem and then simply answer his own question as he has done in the quatrain? This achieves symmetry in all four lines. Some of his other poems are far superior. Yet several translations of some of Puskin’s poems again stress how much poetry suffers lost in translation. It is the hardest literary medium to translate due to the multiple meanings of some words in the original language and the wonderful poetic effects linking such words achieves.

Good, very good translation. In the poet`s style for sure

This poem talks about negative kind of friendship. There should not be this kind of friendship in the world. Negative kind of friendship is suitable only for conspirators.