“I remember a wonderful moment” by Pushkin is one of the most reverent, soulful and harmonious masterpieces of the poet’s love lyrics. And this despite the fact that he has a lot of such revelations.
For example, “I loved you,” “Spell,” “Confession,” and many others. Feelings are completely dissolved in the text of the poem. The words “I remember a wonderful moment” seem to rest on the music themselves at ease. M.I. Glinka composed the famous romance in 1840. And since then, beautiful poetry has forever combined in the minds of Russian people with enchanting music.
Analysis of the poem. Pushkin, “I Remember a Wonderful Moment”: Addressee
It is believed that the author refers in this work to A.P. Kern. He first met her when in 1819 he was visiting the Olenins. Even then, her beauty and charm fascinated the poet. Six years passed, and they met for the second time in Trigorsky. Anna stayed there with her aunt, P. Osipova. An almost forgotten, fading feeling again resurrected in Pushkin’s soul, awakened him in an atmosphere of painful, monotonous Mikhailovsky exile. Before Anna left, he wrote a poem and presented her with the second chapter of Onegin.
Analysis of the poem. Pushkin, “I remember a wonderful moment”: an analogy with “Tatyana’s Letter to Onegin”
The very first words of the work, his music fascinate the reader. With each line, something familiar for a long time is heard more clearly. Not immediately, but gradually recalled: this is Tatyana’s letter in which she pours out spiritual anguish in sincere confessions. It is known that the third chapter of Onegin was written before the second meeting with Anna Kern. Perhaps it was precisely Tatyana’s letter that prompted the poet to write the first lines of the poem “I Remember ...”. Of course, if we consider that it is dedicated to a specific person, then the comparison with "Eugene Onegin" is not entirely successful. However, in this case, it is more important not so much the addressee himself as the state of purity and freshness of feeling that brought about a declaration of love close to prayer. Pushkin’s poetic image is filled with earthly content. He has an ideal, beautiful, but still real woman.
Analysis of the poem. Pushkin, “I Remember a Wonderful Moment”: Years of St. Petersburg Life
The subsequent lines of the work are autobiographical, but their emotionality does not fall. The poet recalls how he lived for several years in the noisy, bustling Petersburg, how his soul languished with sadness. Then he talks about the painful days spent in the wilderness during the Mikhail exile. Here, the poet does not just reproduce what he had experienced before, but emphasizes that his tender voice did not fade in his soul, and lovely, heavenly features were not erased. And suddenly feelings explode with renewed vigor. A storm of passion comes in place of quiet tenderness. The rapture of the woman's love, the beauty of a woman, brings the poet bliss in itself. He experiences happiness that cannot be compared to anything else. The poet understands that for him, without inspiration, deity and love, there is no life.
Analysis of the poem. Pushkin, “I remember a wonderful moment”: the endearing power of a work
This poetry is especially attractive in that it is not just love lyrics. In the poem, this line is inextricably linked with Pushkin's philosophical reflections on life in general, on the joy of life, on the renewal of creative forces in such rare moments of meeting with real beauty. An emotional explosion, passion are combined in it with such tender feelings as trepidation, lyricism. The appearance of his beloved prompted the poet to revel in and admire her chastely, gave him enlightened inspiration.