Friday, January 3, 2003

Imitation Comments

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I saw the Death, and she was seating
By quiet entrance at my own home,
I saw the doors were opened in my tomb,
And there, and there my hope was a-flitting
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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
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Deepak Kumar Pattanayak 19 August 2020

Great poem by great poet so touching indeed on death 10++

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Mahtab Bangalee 19 August 2020

No scope to flee away Death is sitting on every single path No place to hide Death is hidden everywhere No opportunity to fly away Death can fly speedy more than light No life can save itself from the death Death can imitate everyone and everything in every way

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Khairul Ahsan 19 August 2020

'Where life for me was never cheering, Where I was loving, having not to love! ' - I can relate to these two lines!

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Tyesha Doy 19 August 2020

This was a very interesting read

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Harley White 19 August 2020

Marvelous poem with much vivid imagery, by a great writier... First line, last word should be 'sitting'. I don't know Russian, but I love how the translator rendered the line, 'The dazzling heavens' azure curtain´',

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Leloudia Migdali 19 August 2019

A great poem by a great poet. A precious piece!

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James Bloom 19 August 2019

A great poem that expresses how dark the soul can feel sometimes.

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Ratnakar Mandlik 19 August 2019

" I saw the death and she was sitting By quite entrance of my own home" A great insightful foem well deserving classic of the Day.

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Dr Antony Theodore 19 August 2019

Beloved hills, the brook's enchanting dance, You, mourn - the inspiration's chance, You, peaceful shades of wilderness, uncertain, And all - farewell, farewell at once. very fine poem of Pushkin.. tony

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Uche Nwanze 19 August 2019

' I saw the Death, and she was seating By quiet entrance at my own home' So intriguing, wonderful piece.

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Aniruddha Pathak 19 August 2019

And I must add, I find the information provided by Sylvia Frances Chan on the poet very useful.

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Aniruddha Pathak 19 August 2019

A great poet writes on death, a fabulous poem as a classical one, an apt choice.

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Mahtab Bangalee 19 August 2019

The dazzling heavens' azure curtain, Beloved hills, the brook's enchanting dance, ...//// superb and finest beautiful poem

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Kumarmani Mahakul 19 August 2018

It is great write by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. May God bless his poetic soul.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 19 August 2018

FOUR: , Pushkin wrote his most famous play, the drama Boris Godunov. His novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, was serialized between 1825 and 1832. Congratulations of being chosen as Classic Poem Of The Day, more than a myriad 10's R.I.P., dear AS Pushkin!

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Sylvia Frances Chan 19 August 2018

THREE: Born into the Russian nobility in Moscow, Pushkin published his first poem at the age of fifteen, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo. While under the strict surveillance of the Tsar's political police and unable to publish

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Sylvia Frances Chan 19 August 2018

TWO: natural gallicisms; 3. The everyday colloquialisms of his set; and 4. Stylized popular speech. He made a salad of the famous three styles (low, medium elevation, high) dear to the pseudoclassical archaists, and added to it the ingredients of Russian romanticists with a pinch of parody.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 19 August 2018

ONE: According to Vladimir Nabokov, Pushkin's idiom combined all the contemporaneous elements of Russian with all he had learned from Derzhavin, Zhukovsky, Batyushkov, Karamzin, and Krylov; these elements are: 1. The poetical and metaphysical strain that still lived in Church Slavonic forms and locutions; 2. Abundant and

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Edward Kofi Louis 19 August 2018

Opened in my womb! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Mahtab Bangalee 19 August 2018

greatly penned- My gloomy road was a-streaming, Where life for me was never cheering, Where I was loving, having not to love!

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