The novel "Eugene Onegin" is the most famous and often cited work of Russian literature. The poet worked on the novel in poetry for more than eight years, calling it "the fruit of the mind and heart of a woeful note." The critic Belinsky, admired by the poet’s talent and genius, rightly considered this work an encyclopedia in which all 19th-century Russian life was reflected in a mirror. The main characters of the novel are: the skeptic Onegin, the dreamer and romantic Lensky and Tatyana, who embodies the ideal of a harmonious attitude.
The sun of Russian poetry
Alexander Sergeevich was an unsurpassed master of the pen, his language was simple and understandable to the people. Therefore, it is not surprising that readers fell in love with the novel immediately after its publication in 1825. Fell in love for the simplicity and ease of the syllable, subtle humor and caustic irony, which hid the deepest meaning. Even the special term “Pushkin’s language” appeared: the style of versification, combining literary and folk language, filling it with vivid images, expressive metaphors. Many aphorisms from "Eugene Onegin", phrases from the novel became winged, figuratively speaking, went to the people.
The most famous sayings of the poet from the novel "Eugene Onegin"
Each chapter of the novel is replete with many winged expressions. From the novel "Eugene Onegin" aphorisms by chapters are presented later in this article.
Chapter one
Here is my Onegin free;
Cut to the latest fashion
How dandy london dressed -
And finally saw the light.
(Verse 4)
The expression “like a London dandy is dressed” means a man dressed according to the European fashion of that time. The fashion model at the time of Pushkin was considered George Brammell - the legislator of dendism in England.
He who lived and thought cannot
In the soul do not despise people ...
(Verse 46)
In our time, a similar expression by G. Heine is widespread: "The more I get to know people, the more I like dogs."
Second chapter of the novel
The habit from above is given to us:
Replacing happiness for her.
(Verse 31)
According to Pushkin, a habit can replace happiness in family life; it is it that is the basis of marriage.
Aphorisms from the chapter three
The time has come, she fell in love ...
(Verse 7)
You drink the magic poison of desires.
(Verse 15)
Our proud language until now
I'm not used to postal prose.
(Verse 26)
Tatyana wrote her love letter in French, and the poet complains that a foreign language dominated the epistolary genre in his time.
Like the lips of a rosy without a smile
No grammar mistake
I do not like Russian speech.
In this phrase, irony and a little hooliganism show through, the poet hints at his method of intentionally using errors in the text.
What matters to me?
I will be faithful to antiquity.
(Verse 28)
As a true patriot of his homeland, Alexander Sergeyevich wanted to say with this phrase that he was prettier than ordinary Russian speech than the deliberately correct, lacquered speech of aristocrats.
Nobody understands me...
I am writing to you - what’s more?
(Verse 31)
And this is a saying from Tatyana’s love letter addressed to Eugene.
The fourth chapter of the work
Your perfection is in vain.
(Verse 14)
Dreams and years no return.
(Verse 16)
Everybody has enemies in the world,
But save us from friends, god!
(Verse 18)
Indeed, a fake friend who can substitute at any moment is worse than the enemy.
I don’t want to quarrel for two centuries.
(Verse 33)
Here, Pushkin had in mind the fabulist I.I. Dmitriev, who ridiculed in his poem "Someone else's Wisdom" a flatterer - a poet of the late 18th century, who composed laudatory odes for persons of high rank in order to receive favor from them.
But our northern summer,
Caricature of the southern winters ...
Pushkin did not like summer; he liked autumn, about which he wrote more than once in his poems.
The sky was breathing in the fall.
(Verse 40)
A wonderful metaphor describing the autumn sky. This lyrical passage has become an independent poem, students learn it by heart.
Chapter six
Where did you go
Spring is my golden days?
What is the coming day preparing for me?
My gaze catches it in vain
He lurks in the deep darkness.
(Verse 21)
These lines became especially popular after the Lensky aria in the production of the opera by P.I. Tchaikovsky.
Chapter Seven "Eugene Onegin"
Moscow ... how much in this sound
For the heart of the Russian merged!
How much has responded in it!
(Verse 36)
These famous words are often loved by the capital city guides. The love of Moscow, of the Motherland is imbued with the whole poem. In lyrical digressions, Pushkin often glorifies the nature of Russia, its beauty.
Chapter Eight of the novel
Give the forbidden fruit to you:
Without it, paradise is not paradise for you.
(Verse 27)
The forbidden fruit here is an apple as a biblical symbol of temptation. The serpent tempts Eve, she and Adam are expelled from paradise.
And happiness was so possible
So close!
I love you (why dissemble?)
But I am given to another;
I will be faithful to him for a century.
(Verse 47)
The famous phrase from Tatyana’s monologue, in which she confesses love to Onegin, but cannot be with him, as she is married to another.
Pushkin - a modern poet
“Manuscripts do not burn,” Bulgakov wrote in his novel “The Master and Margarita.” The writer wanted to say about the imperishability of these creations. The same can be said about the work of Alexander Sergeyevich. Pushkin is undoubtedly a genius, since the problems that he raises in his works are eternal. Some aphorisms from the work "Eugene Onegin" are popular in our days. Next, consider the most relevant.
Here are the top 7 aphorisms from "Eugene Onegin", widely used in the XXI century:
We all studied a little
Something and somehow ...
(Verse 5, chapter 1)
Usually they say this about pseudo-intellectuals, people with superficial, shallow knowledge, about amateurs, ignoramuses. They say about such people, "they seized the tops of some knowledge."
You can be a real person
And think about the beauty of nails ...
(Verse 25, chapter 1)
Well-groomed appearance, impeccable manicure - not a reason to consider a person untalented and stupid. By the way, the poet himself always had perfectly polished, well-groomed fingernails.
We honor everyone with zeros
And in units - yourself.
We all look at Napoleons ...
(14th stanza, 2nd chapter)
Here is the irony over oneself and others. The poet ironizes over high ambitions, vanity, human pride.
Love for all ages…
(Verse 29, chapter 8)
The most popular winged expression of all the aphorisms from "Eugene Onegin." Only not everyone correctly interprets its meaning, taking the line out of context, as the poet writes further about love passion in old age:
But in a late and barren age,
At the turn of our years,
Sad passions dead track ...
What is the coming day preparing for me?
(Verse 21, chapter 6)
Speaking this phrase, thoughtfully we look out the window in the morning.
The less woman we love
The easier she likes us,
And the more we ruin it
Amidst seductive nets.
(Verse 7, chapter 4)
The saying has become truly popular. The fact is known that the poet was a great lover of the female sex and legends were composed about his adventures. Interestingly, a few years before the writing of the novel, Pushkin in a letter to his younger brother, Lev Sergeyevich, expressed a similar idea, but only in prose.
Learn to rule yourself ...
(Verse 16, chapter 4)
Tatyana says these words, referring to Onegin. Learn to control yourself, do not let your weaknesses get the better of you. The ancient and very wise philosopher Seneca noticed that the highest power is power over his vices and weaknesses, and enslavement by them is the worst slavery.
Conclusion
Aphorisms from the novel "Eugene Onegin" are still relevant. Every citizen of our country should read and know such a work. Getting acquainted with the work of Pushkin, we enrich ourselves intellectually and spiritually, expand the boundaries of our worldview, and replenish our vocabulary.