During his stay in the southern exile, Pushkin composed many interesting and thoughtful poems. “Prisoner” was written in 1822, when Alexander Sergeevich was in the position of college secretary in Chisinau. For the poet’s freedom-loving nature in 1820, the Governor-General of St. Petersburg sent him to the southern exile. Although the mayor of Chisinau, Prince Ivan Inzov, was quite supportive of Pushkin, the writer felt embarrassed in a foreign land.
Alexander Sergeyevich took the appointment to the office of a remote, dusty and dirty province as a personal insult. He could answer him with free verses, but he understood what the authorities could send him to Siberia for. Only the petition of influential friends helped him maintain his former position and title as a nobleman. In Chisinau, as if in prison, Pushkin felt himself. “Prisoner” is
a poem that accurately describes the mood of a poet who is in forced exile.
From the very first lines, Alexander Sergeyevich compares the southern city with a crude dungeon, which paints a very sad and dull picture. The reader gets the impression that the lyrical hero is indeed in custody, sitting in the cell and looking at the world through a small window. No wonder the poet associates himself with a young eagle, because he was always free in his actions and actions, quite often neglected his official duties. The poem "Prisoner" Pushkin wrote to show the hopelessness of the situation and his helplessness.
The hero in the work communicates with a captive-raised eagle. But man understands that even this bird, who never knew a sense of freedom, is much stronger and more freedom-loving. The eagle continually raises its gaze and screams as if it wants to say: "Come on, fly away." Because of the inability to return to Moscow or St. Petersburg, Pushkin only felt a sense of impotent malice. "Prisoner" is the poet's
life motto , in this poem he realizes that he is a free bird, which should not indicate what to do.
Alexander Sergeyevich draws a parallel with the eagle, thereby emphasizing the freedom-loving "I" and this annoys him even more, because he understands that he was born a free man, and forced to obey someone, to do everything at the direction of the tsarist regime. All subjects of the Russian Empire, regardless of rank and title, are required to play according to special rules imposed by the tsar. The beginning of the protest and symbolizes the poem "Prisoner". Pushkin, analysis of the work allows you to understand the feelings of the author, even then he decided to act against the authorities and change something in his fate. In the verse, he hints that he will soon go to the seas, and the truth soon submits an application to Count Vorontsov for transfer to the office of Odessa.
Only in the southern exile did Pushkin finally realize his mission and place in Russian literature. “The Prisoner” is only one of the brilliant works of that period. In the 1920s, Alexander Sergeyevich composed a lot of delightful and truly talented poems. Staying far from his homeland, the poet realized what spiritual freedom meant to him.