Everyone knows the poem by the great Russian poet A.S. Pushkin entitled “I remember a wonderful moment...”. It is difficult to find lines filled with love and admiration for the woman you love that would surpass this work in its tenderness and reverence.
History of creation
When analyzing the poem “I Remember a Wonderful Moment,” a student can mention several facts about the history of its creation. It was written in the village of Mikhailovskoye in 1925. The Russian critic N. Skatov was convinced that not a single poet, either before or after Pushkin, could create such an image of love. One of these unusual works is the poem “I Remember a Wonderful Moment,” the analysis of which is discussed in this article.
This work was dedicated to a young beauty named Anna Kern. For the first time A.S. Pushkin saw her in St. Petersburg in 1819. was the wife of General Kern. Alexander Sergeevich first saw the girl while visiting mutual friends. The then young poet was amazed by the charm of the nineteen-year-old beauty. A.S. Pushkin and Anna Kern just exchanged a few phrases - there was no love connection between them.
A few years later, Alexander Sergeevich again had the opportunity to meet the general’s young wife. It was at that moment that beautiful lines were born, telling about the extraordinary power of love, which is capable of resurrection.
What is the work about?
The action of the poem begins with a description of one seemingly insignificant moment in the life of the poet. It describes a “fleeting moment” that is imprinted in memory. Then, through the description of emotions and experiences, the great Russian poet immerses the reader in the atmosphere of real life. At the same time, the appearance of the lyrical hero of the poem becomes clearer and clearer. His future fate becomes clear:
"In the wilderness, in the darkness of imprisonment
My days passed quietly
Without a deity, without inspiration,
No tears, no life, no love."
But the phenomenon of the “genius of pure beauty”, to whom the work is addressed, gives the lyrical hero inspiration and rapture.
Intonation
While working on the analysis of the poem “I Remember a Wonderful Moment,” the student can talk about one of the characteristic features of this work. Namely, about maintaining the same intonation throughout the entire poem. Despite the blows of fate occurring in life, the noisy bustle and various difficulties, it (intonation) remains unchanged.
And suddenly providence presents the lyrical hero with another meeting with his love. Only at this moment does the intonation of the poem begin to change. The lyrical hero is filled with quiet and calm joy because he has the opportunity to once again see the creature dear to his heart. His triumphant voice does not subside, but rushes with even greater force into the heavens:
And the heart beats in ecstasy,
And for him they rose again
And deity and inspiration,
And life, and tears, and love.
Theme, genre
When analyzing the poem “I Remember a Wonderful Moment” by Pushkin, the student should also indicate the theme and genre of the work. At the end of the poem, the reader can again see the motive of awakening, the joy of life, the delight that the lyrical hero managed to regain. There is no doubt that in this work the dominant feeling is love, which can inspire a person and give him hope in a series of the most difficult storms of life.
So, the main theme of this work is love. The genre of the work is a love letter. However, you can also find philosophical reflections in it about how significant just one moment can be if it is remembered for a lifetime. Every moment like this is valuable.
Artistic media
It cannot be said that there are many artistic devices in the poem. But this is precisely what gives the work both simplicity and sophistication. The epithets used by the great Russian poet are distinguished by both sublimity and extraordinary harmony - “the genius of pure beauty”, “wonderful moment”, “favorite features”.
The simplicity of the image depicted by the author is achieved in the most familiar words. As for the passion of the work, those emotional impulses that are described in it, here Alexander Sergeevich actively uses the technique of metaphor. Love does not die, it lives despite all life circumstances. “Former dreams” are able to dispel the “rebellious impulse of storms,” but they still rise again. It is also worth noting the special melody of the work, achieved through the use of various syntactic means - anaphors, refrains, frames.
A brief analysis of the poem “I Remember a Wonderful Moment” shows that the work uses cross-type rhyme. The technique of alliteration is represented by the sonorant consonant sounds “l”, “m”, “n”. All these techniques contribute to the creation of a special melody in this unusual poem.
Composition
The entire work is written in iambic tetrameter. As for compositional features, the poem has three equal parts. Each of them is connected with each other, while they are independent in their semantic content. The first of these parts contains memories of the poet’s wonderful meeting with his love.
The second part is more dramatic. Here there is a fading of tender feelings, until the complete onset of “silence”. The final part is structured a little differently. Here the movement goes, on the contrary, forward, with increasing spiritual elation.
Analysis of the poem “I remember a wonderful moment”: work plan
Sometimes students need to not only briefly analyze a poem, but do it according to plan. Let's look at an approximate diagram:
- Author and title of the work.
- History of creation.
- Artistic media.
- Rhythm, size.
- Features of vocabulary.
- Conclusion, student’s opinion.
Conclusion
The poem “I Remember a Wonderful Moment,” which was analyzed in this article, today remains the standard of sublime love poetry. It is a real monument to sensual impulse and deep poetic experiences. The poem intertwines images of the beloved woman and love itself - this is something bright and fragile that is painfully familiar to everyone living on earth.
The poem “I remember a wonderful moment...”, addressed to a hidden addressee (“K***”), has a real life basis, since it was presented by the poet to the subject of his feelings - Anna Petrovna Kern. The acquaintance with her took place in the house of Kern’s relative (president of the Academy of Arts A.N. Olenin, whose wife A.P. Kern was a niece), during Pushkin’s stay in St. Petersburg, even before exile, in 1819. The second time they met through six years. At this time, the poet was in Mikhailovskoye as an exile. The owner of the estate next to Mikhailovsky, Trigorsky, turned out to be a relative of Kern, P.A. Osipova, in whose family he was warmly received. Anna Petrovna stopped by Osipova for several weeks on her way to Riga. Leaving Trigorsky, she received as a gift from the author a copy of the second chapter of the novel in verse “Eugene Onegin”, which included the message “K***”.
The first stanza (there are six quatrains in total in the poem, iambic tetrameter with cross rhyme) turns to the past, when a meeting took place, which the lyrical hero recalls as a vision of the ideal. Awareness of the reminiscent background helps to identify the meaning of the impression. The image of the “genius of pure beauty” with which the beloved is compared belongs to V.A. Zhukovsky (poem “Lalla Ruk”, 1821, which is an interpretation of the poem of the same name by T. Moore). For him, this is an angel, the embodiment of the heavenly ideal of beauty. In addition to reminding of a specific work, reminiscence is also important due to the fact that it brings to mind a number of characteristics of the ideal in the work of the romantics. For Zhukovsky, beauty is a “guest... from above,” visiting the poet in sleep, in memories, dreams, illuminating earthly life “for a minute,” which is remembered for a long time, “inseparable from the heart.”
Pushkin’s lyrical hero recalls that the meeting with his darling (“lovely features”) caused the awakening of emotions and reminded him of the earthly manifestations of the divine principle, that is, both feeling and thought came to life in him in an instant, which made him magical, “wonderful”:
I remember a wonderful moment:
You appeared before me,
Like a fleeting vision
Like a genius of pure beauty.
The light of the heavenly ideal falls on the beloved, and her features acquire sublimity and tender, beautiful mystery. These impressions persist even in separation, contrasting with the “noisy bustle” of everyday life. But they sound more and more muffled (in showing a subsiding spiritual storm, the motif of a voice that appears in memory, but then forgotten - stanzas 2-3 is decisive) against its background, the reality of the past is only a dream:
The storms of the outside world are stronger than time, which did not influence the hopeless love of the lyrical hero, but even they do not have the power to “dispel” (as their impulse “Dispelled previous dreams”) his commitment to the ideal. The fourth stanza, central in the compositional division of six quatrains into two parts (three stanzas each), where attention is focused on the two stages of love. If in the first three stanzas of the poem “I remember a wonderful moment...”, the analysis of which interests us, an image is created of a feeling that arose several years ago, which tormented with its hopelessness for whole years, then in the final ones the experience changes in character and becomes an internal sensation. And then everything external is relegated to the background. In the poem there is no motive of a romantic choice between two worlds; dreams and storms of life, “the languor of hopeless sadness” and “anxiety of noisy vanity” fill the life of the lyrical hero, making him rich and diverse (a gentle voice and the noise of storm and vanity sound). The importance of focusing on internal aspects is emphasized in connection with the discovery of their life-giving (Zhukovsky) meaning: the divine principle is manifested in them. The darkness of imprisonment becomes a metaphor for the earthly prison, where the empty days of the lyrical hero stretch endlessly (the emptiness is emphasized thanks to the fivefold repetition of the preposition “without”):
In the wilderness, in the darkness of imprisonment
My days passed quietly,
Without a deity, without inspiration,
No tears, no life, no love.
Love is singled out among all experiences; the conclusion that it is the main thing that the lyrical hero lacks is facilitated by the rising intonation, the idea of which arises thanks to the enumeration. The pinnacle to which it leads is the word “love.” In addition to intonation, phonic artistic means and unusual rhyming help to elevate the concept. In four of the six stanzas, the same consonances in male rhyme are used (in the first and fifth they repeat each other: you are beauty; in the fourth a new rhyme appears, the task of which is to highlight the key word (my - love). This effect is emphasized by the fact that there is no novelty in the female rhyme of the stanza; it is consonant with the endings of the odd terms in the first quatrain (imprisonment - inspiration - moment - vision).
At the semantic level, the meaning of love is affirmed due to the fact that the resurrection of the lyrical hero, the awakening of his soul, is associated with it. The impression is repeated, he again experiences (stanza 5) a “wonderful moment” (the literal repetition of the images of the first stanza is highlighted):
The soul has awakened,
And here we go again you appeared
Like a fleeting vision
Like a genius of pure beauty.
Love fills the heart, like an ideal, spiritualizing earthly darkness with Divine light. In the context of the analyzed poem “I remember a wonderful moment...” by Pushkin, feeling turns out to be no less important than the desire for the infinite, and, in connection with the reproduction of subjective psychological experiences, appears as a tangible and convincing manifestation of spirituality. The last stanza talks about the miracle he performed - after worries, disappointments, dangers, worries, gloomy forebodings, loneliness, the heart beats again in ecstasy, hopes and creative dreams are resurrected.
Rising intonation leads further, and at the top the main landmark is again highlighted (the intonation elevation, which enlivens the oral reading, existing in the reader’s mind, thanks to the inner ear, is facilitated by enumeration - for which the sevenfold repetition of the conjunction “and” is used). The word “love” also stands out thanks to the new consonance. If the female rhyme of the sixth quatrain repeats the one that was used in the first, fourth and fifth stanzas (rapture - inspiration, rhyming with the odd lines of these quatrains, ending with the words: “moment - vision” - 1, “imprisonment - inspiration” - 4, “ awakening - vision" - 5), then the masculine one is built on the assonance "o" (again - love). It encourages us to remember the consonant words in the previous text, among which were recognitions of a long memory of a fleeting impression (I remember, before me, fleeting, worries, years, tears - in these words “o” is in the stressed position) and an image expressing the tangibility of the memory : “A gentle voice sounded to me for a long time...” Along with repetitions of the sounds “e” (in addition to rhymes, the words “genius, languor, scattered, former, heavenly, soul, heart, resurrected”), “and” (“appeared, pure , dreamed, dear, your, life”) and “u” (“wonderful, sad, noisy, storms”) the assonance “o” gives a unique musicality to the poem. In the last quatrain it sounds like the final tonic (main, supporting tone):
And the heart beats in ecstasy,
And for him they rose again
Both Divinity and inspiration,
And life, and tears, and love.
The last chord completes the development of the lyrical plot, where there were wonderful moments, and years of hopeless experiences, and days of imprisonment, with an optimistic emotional note. The inner life of the lyrical hero appears as a whole world where beauty and harmony reign. Its sound, phonic characteristics are not accidental, since the impression of coherence, harmony, proportionality is easier and more convincing to convey through musical artistic means (harmony, from the Latin “proportionate, harmonious”, is the area of expressive means in music based on the combination of tones into consonances and their connections each other). Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, one of the founders of Russian symbolism, called Pushkin’s skill in creating verbal symphonies (from the Greek “consonance”) “sound writing” (one of Bryusov’s many works on Pushkin’s poetry is called “Pushkin’s Sound Writing”, 1923). If you, following Bryusov and many other writers and philologists, are interested in revealing the secrets of the great poet’s talent, you will have to consider his poem not intuitively, but quite consciously and thoughtfully.
Try reading Pushkin’s poem “K***” aloud, reproducing the rising intonation in quatrains 4 and 6 (the last lines of the stanzas, where repeated prepositions or conjunctions sound), as if climbing to the top, where the word that ends the stanza reigns (“love”, “ Love"). In addition, try to hear the melody created by assonances in strong places in the text, their connection with semivowels and sonorants. It will sound major (from the Latin “bigger”, a musical mode, the stable sounds of which create a cheerful, joyful mood), despite the hopelessness and depression expressed in the content. In the second - fourth stanzas, where we talk about the loneliness of the lyrical hero (hopeless sadness, sweet features are only dreamed of, and then completely forgotten, days in the wilderness, in the darkness of imprisonment), about his difficult experiences, sound repetitions are built on the same consonants, as in the first, fifth and sixth quatrains, which convey completely different feelings. " N», « m", And " l"with vowels form melodic combinations: then mlen yah, sounding l me d ol go g olo With Not and ny, With Nile be nice y, d neither my etc. The combination of multidirectional emotional tendencies within the framework of one poem “I remember a wonderful moment...”, which we analyzed, allows us to express a harmonious worldview.
It becomes a characteristic feature of the lyrical hero in Pushkin’s poems, demonstrating his desire to accept life in all the diversity of its features, to combine attention to detail with generalization, spontaneity with philosophical depth. For him, there is nothing one-dimensional and complete in the world. For his soul, “Either all are too few, or one is enough” (“Having voluntarily renounced multiplicity...”, 1825), everything depends on the mirror where the real situation is reflected. But whether it brings details closer or allows you to look at life as a whole, the “immortal sun” is always visible above the canvas (“Bacchanalian Song”, 1825), the present is perceived as a stage (“Everything is instantaneous, everything will pass;/What will pass will be sweet” . - “If life deceives you...”, 1825), a moment stopped by the will of the artist, beautiful, “wonderful” or sad, gloomy, but always sweet with its uniqueness.
The image of the lyrical hero, the author's "I". –
“I Remember a Wonderful Moment” is one of Pushkin’s most heartfelt, reverent, harmonious poems related to love themes. It is autobiographical and dedicated to Anna Petrovna Kern.
The poem begins with a memory of a dear and beautiful image that has entered the consciousness of the lyrical hero for the rest of his life. This deeply intimate, hidden memory is warmed by such a reverent and ardent, undying feeling that we involuntarily and imperceptibly join in this reverent adoration before the shrine of beauty:
I remember a wonderful moment:
You appeared before me,
Like a fleeting vision
Like a genius of pure beauty.
The emotional tone of the subsequent stanzas also does not decrease. The lyrical hero recalls the years of his St. Petersburg life, which passed “in the languor of hopeless sadness, in the worries of noisy bustle.” He recreates a different mood of feelings, recalling his life during the period of southern exile (“A rebellious gust of storms scattered previous dreams”). The poet also mentions the “darkness of imprisonment” of Mikhailovsky exile, about the painful days spent “in the wilderness”: “Without deity, without inspiration, Without tears, without life, without love.”
But the hero’s memory always contained “sweet”, “heavenly” features; the “tender voice” still sounds in his soul. Tragic things are also inherent in love - jealousy, separation, death of the beloved.
The unrequited love of the lyrical hero Pushkin is devoid of any egoism. He truly loves a woman, cares about her, and does not want to disturb her with his confessions.
For the lyrical hero Pushkin, the days of separation from his beloved passed “in the worries of noisy bustle,” that is, with all the usual manifestations of everyday life. There was a “storm of rebellion” that pushed aside the personal and “dispelled previous dreams.” There was also languid inaction: “In the wilderness, in the darkness of captivity, my days quietly dragged on...”.
Stylistic figures of the work.
1. Phrases with direct and reverse word order form a special rhythm. This rhythm is immediately manifested by the contrast of verses (1) and (2):
I remember a wonderful moment:
You appeared before me...
2. The poems are facing each other according to the rule of slightly shifted mirror symmetry or incomplete inversion, which is one of Pushkin’s most frequent techniques. The figure is even more sharply emphasized by the polarized position of the personal pronouns “I” and “You”. They take both verses into a compositional and semantic frame and set the conditions for further phrasal rhythm.
3. Syntactic oppositions play into the antonymic change of motives “memory-oblivion”, and in the roll call “I remember” (1) and “I forgot” (11) the first person pronoun appears for the second and last time.
I remember a wonderful moment:
And I forgot your gentle voice,
4. Stanzas IV and V are built in reverse word order, and in V there are two such phrases (vv. 17-18). The soul has awakened:
And then you appeared again,
5. in general, the reverse word order is actually twice as large as the direct one, if we subtract eight verses with “neutral” anaphoric insertions.
The essence of every person's life is love. It is this feeling that Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin teaches to appreciate in many of his works. Love was the inspiration for the poet to create his masterpieces. The love lyrics of the genius discuss many philosophical and everyday problems. An example of a brilliant and brilliant amorous message is Alexander Pushkin’s poem “I Remember a Wonderful Moment.” Analysis of this creation will demonstrate to you the inspired state of a person in love, the features of the composition and language of the masterpiece. The generally accepted version of the title of this work is “K***”. This title hides who “I Remember a Wonderful Moment” is dedicated to. Well, it's worth meeting this mysterious lady.
The history of Pushkin's poem "I remember a wonderful moment"
The lines, which belong to the pinnacle of world love lyrics, are dedicated to a social beauty named Anna Kern. This beauty was idolized by many fans, among whom was the emperor himself. Her maiden name is Poltoratskaya. An easy-to-remember surname was given to her by her elderly husband. So, the famous masterpiece was intended for the socialite St. Petersburg beauty Anna Kern. The first meeting between the future lovers took place at a gala reception in 1819. The beautiful woman immediately aroused an ardent passion in the young poet. But the fatal temptress was married at that time. Secular laws did not allow married women to express their feelings.
Flirty Anna, in turn, did not even pay attention to the unattractive Alexander among the famous gentlemen. Some of the young man's statements and remarks even irritated her. The next time they met was at the Trigorskoye estate (1825). By this time, Anna had already become a fan of Pushkin’s work. The lady was simply charming and did not behave as timidly as before. When analyzing “I Remember a Wonderful Moment,” it is worth mentioning that it was after this incident that Kern’s message was written. Such attention was very flattering to Anna, but did not evoke mutual feelings. Soon Pushkin went into exile to Mikhailovskoye and agreed to correspond with the beauty.
For two years the poet devoted ardent confessions to Kern. She was a deity to him, filled with incredible virtues. The most brilliant confessions are dedicated to the beauty. Later he became jealous of her, which he sometimes expressed insultingly. In 1827, Anna separated from her husband and started an affair with her husband’s nephew, 20 years younger than her. Alexander Sergeevich was disappointed in her. One day, a connection took place between the lovers in St. Petersburg, after which the poet completely lost interest in his muse. She also became the happy wife of the same young nephew.
In the analysis of “I Remember a Wonderful Moment,” it would not hurt to mention that this message was published by Kern herself in Delvig’s almanac “Northern Flowers” (1825). Being six months younger than Alexander Sergeevich, she outlived the poet by 42 years. Anna concluded that Pushkin did not seriously love anyone.
Main motive
Getting acquainted with the analysis of “I Remember a Wonderful Moment,” readers clearly see the main theme in the poem. This is, of course, love. Pushkin provides his beloved with a small description of his life between their first and second meeting, when he was going to Mikhailovskoye. During this time, flashed through the southern exile, bitter disappointment in life, and the creation of pessimistic works. But the poet’s bad mood changes the image of the divine muse. Joy has returned to the author’s work again. It was during this meeting with the heroine that his soul awakened.
Message idea
Analysis of “I Remember a Wonderful Moment” cannot be imagined without highlighting the main idea of the poem. Pushkin shows love not only as a feeling for a woman, but also as an inspiration for creativity. Love for Alexander Sergeevich is a sincere, deep, magical feeling that has completely taken possession of him. In addition, Pushkin wanted to show the poet’s inner world in cruel reality.
Masterpiece composition
The composition of the poem consists of three fragments. Each of these episodes has its own meaning and its own mood. The first part conveys to the reader the poet’s memories of his meeting with the genius of pure beauty. The second part is a description of the dark days in captivity, when there was no inspiration. The third fragment conveys the state of mind of the lyrical hero, who again wants to create and love.
Genre originality
Now we know to whom “I Remember a Wonderful Moment” is dedicated. Let's determine the genre of the work. This is a love letter. The poet did not deprive him of philosophical reflections. You can see moments from Pushkin's biography. The first stanza talks about life in St. Petersburg, the second - about southern exile, the third - about the upcoming exile to Mikhailovskoye.
Features of language and means of expression
The vocabulary of the poem “I Remember a Wonderful Moment” is filled with epithets and comparisons. The colorful phrase “tender voice” is repeated twice like a musical refrain. All rhymes are filled with harmony and songfulness. It is not for nothing that the famous composer M. I. Glinka wrote a romance based on this text.
In addition to repetitions, the message contains inversion, parallelism, and silence. The poet resorts to a rhetorical question. With the help of complex syntax, Pushkin achieves lightness and clarity of the text. The author uses direct and reverse word order, different positions of epithets, and alternating anaphors. To write the message, the poet used iambic pentameter with cross rhyme. The alternation of vowels in assonance gives the poem melodiousness and smoothness.
This ingenious creation of a genius is known in many parts of the world. In 2013, a book was published that collected translations of this work by Pushkin into 210 languages. 13% of Russians surveyed named this work their favorite.
The poem by K*** “I remember a wonderful moment...” by A.S. Pushkin dates back to 1825. The poet and friend of Pushkin A.A. Delvig published it in “Northern Flowers” in 1827. This is a poem on the theme of love. A.S. Pushkin had a special attitude towards everything related to love in this world. For him, love in life and work was a passion that gave a feeling of harmony.
For the full text of the poem “I Remember a Wonderful Moment...” by A.S. Pushkin, see the end of the article.
The poem is addressed to Anna Petrovna Kern, a young attractive woman whom the twenty-year-old poet first saw at a ball in St. Petersburg in the Olenin house in 1819. It was a fleeting meeting, and Pushkin compared it with the vision of the divine beauty from Zhukovsky’s beautiful work “Lalla Ruk”.
When analyzing “I Remember a Wonderful Moment...” you should pay attention to the fact that the language of this work is unusual. It has been cleared of all specifics. You can notice five words repeated twice - deity, inspiration, tears, life, love. Such a roll call " forms a semantic complex related to the field of artistic creativity.”
The time when the poet was in southern exile (1823-1824), and then in Mikhailovskoye (“in the wilderness, in the darkness of imprisonment”), was a crisis and difficult time for him. But by the beginning of 1825, Alexander Sergeevich had come to grips with himself, with his gloomy thoughts, and “an awakening came in his soul.” During this period, he saw A.P. Kern for the second time, who came to visit Praskovya Aleksandrovna Osipova, who lived next door to Pushkin, in Trigorskoye.
The poem begins with a review of past events, the time spent
“In the languor of hopeless sadness,
In the anxieties of the noisy bustle..."
But the years passed, and a period of exile began.
“In the wilderness, in the darkness of imprisonment,
My days passed quietly
Without a deity, without inspiration,
No tears, no life, no love."
The depression did not last long. And Alexander Sergeevich comes to a new meeting with a feeling of joy in life.
“The soul has awakened
And then you appeared again,
Like a fleeting vision
Like a genius of pure beauty."
What was the driving force with the help of which the poet’s life regained its bright colors? This is creativity. From the poem “Once again I visited...” (in another edition) you can read:
"But here I am with a mysterious shield
Holy Providence has dawned,
Poetry as a comforting angel
She saved me, and I was resurrected in soul"
Regarding themes of the poem “I remember a wonderful moment...”, then, according to a number of literary experts, the love theme here is subordinate to another, philosophical and psychological theme. Observation of “the different states of the poet’s inner world in relation to this world with reality” is the main thing we are talking about.
But no one canceled love. It is presented in the poem on a large scale. It was love that added much-needed strength to Pushkin and brightened his life. But the source of the author’s awakening was poetry.
The poetic meter of the work is iambic. Pentameter, with cross rhyme. Compositionally, the poem “I Remember a Wonderful Moment” is divided into three parts. Two stanzas each. The work is written in a major key. It clearly contains the motive of awakening to a new life.
“I remember a wonderful moment...” A.S. Pushkina belongs to the galaxy of the poet’s most popular works. The famous romance by M.I. Glinka, based on the text “I Remember a Wonderful Moment,” contributed to the even greater popularization of this creation.
TO***
I remember a wonderful moment:
You appeared before me,
Like a fleeting vision
Like a genius of pure beauty.
In the languor of hopeless sadness,
In the worries of noisy bustle,
A gentle voice sounded to me for a long time,
And I dreamed of cute features.
Years passed. The storm is a rebellious gust
Dispelled old dreams
And I forgot your gentle voice,
Your heavenly features.
In the wilderness, in the darkness of imprisonment
My days passed quietly
Without a deity, without inspiration,
No tears, no life, no love.
The soul has awakened:
And then you appeared again,
Like a fleeting vision
Like a genius of pure beauty.
And the heart beats in ecstasy,
And for him they rose again
And deity and inspiration,
And life, and tears, and love.
