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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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
'Where life for me was never cheering, Where I was loving, having not to love! ' - I can relate to these two lines!
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´',
A great poem that expresses how dark the soul can feel sometimes.
" 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.
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
' I saw the Death, and she was seating By quiet entrance at my own home' So intriguing, wonderful piece.
And I must add, I find the information provided by Sylvia Frances Chan on the poet very useful.
A great poet writes on death, a fabulous poem as a classical one, an apt choice.
The dazzling heavens' azure curtain, Beloved hills, the brook's enchanting dance, ...//// superb and finest beautiful poem
It is great write by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. May God bless his poetic soul.
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!
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
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.
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
Opened in my womb! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
greatly penned- My gloomy road was a-streaming, Where life for me was never cheering, Where I was loving, having not to love!
Great poem by great poet so touching indeed on death 10++