Literary genre I remember a wonderful moment. "I remember a wonderful moment..."
Poem "I remember wonderful moment is dedicated to Anna Petrovna Kern. It is based on the real facts of the biography of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin.
The poem is divided into three equal parts - two stanzas each. Each part is imbued with a special tone and mood.
First part dedicated to the memory of the first meeting: "I remember a wonderful moment."
Second part begins with the words: "The years went by." The days of exile dragged on long and painfully, and time erased the "heavenly features" from memory.
The third part talks about the amazing awakening of the soul
lyrical hero- about how he was seized by a rush of former bright feelings.
Describing the first meeting with his beloved, the poet chooses bright, expressive epithets (wonderful moment; fleeting vision). Pushkin does not paint a portrait of Anna Kern. He gives the reader only a generalized image - "the genius of pure beauty" (the word genius, which is repeated twice, at that time was used in poetic language in the meaning of spirit or image).
The image of pure beauty that arose in the first stanza is perceived as a symbol of the beauty and poetry of life itself. Love for a poet is a deep, sincere, magical feeling that is completely
captures him.
The next three stanzas tell about the exile of the poet - about a difficult time in his life, full of life's trials. Pushkin calls this time "the languor of hopeless sadness." This is both growing up and parting with youthful ideals, when "storms
a rebellious impulse dispelled former dreams.
It seemed that the hardships of life forever blotted out the joyful youthful vision. In exile - "in the wilderness, in the darkness of imprisonment" - the poet's life seemed to freeze and lose its meaning.
"The Darkness of Imprisonment" is not just a biographical allusion. This is an image of bondage, which deprived the life of the poet of all its joys. It is impossible for him to live "without Divinity, without inspiration."
Deity, inspiration, tears, life, love Pushkin puts in one row, because they symbolize the fullness and brightness of feelings, the bright side of life - everything that is opposite to the "darkness of imprisonment."
But no matter how difficult the trials that befell the poet, no matter how hopeless life in the "darkness of imprisonment" may seem, the poet's soul is always ready to respond to the call of beauty.
And in the fifth stanza, the poet talks about his rebirth: “The awakening has come to the soul ...” - he again feels inspired, the desire to create, meets his beautiful Muse again. That is why this stanza is very similar to the first - the fleeting and beautiful vision of his youth, which is so dear to his heart, returns to the poet.
Musicality, always characteristic of Pushkin's poetry, in the message to Kern reaches the highest degree perfection. Pushkin's poetry
inspired many composers - more than 60 romances were written on his poems.
The romance “I remember a wonderful moment” was written in 1825 by Titov, the composer A. A. Alyabyev wrote a romance to the same verses in 1829, and in 1832 Glinka’s most famous romance was created.
The poem is written in iambic pentameter with cross rhyme. Of the six stanzas of the poem, four are built on a soft female rhyme: "ene". This sound combination is repeated eight times. Genre: message.
COMPOSITION AND PLOT
The poem is dedicated to Anna Kern. Compositionally and thematically, it is divided into three parts.
Part 1
Memories of a lyrical hero about a meeting with a beautiful girl:
I remember a wonderful moment:
You appeared before me
Like a fleeting vision
Like a genius of pure beauty.
Part 2
Years passed, the features of the beloved dissipated.
The life of the poet proceeded:
Without a god, without inspiration,
No tears, no life, no love.
Part 3
The appearance of the beloved awakens feelings in the heart again, for which they are resurrected:
And deity, and inspiration,
And life, and tears, and love.
IDEA AND THEMATIC CONTENT
⦁ Theme: love.
⦁ Idea: the meaning of life is love, without it life is in vain; love inspires.
ARTISTIC MEDIA
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. Acquaintance with her happened 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 saw each other through six years. At this time, the poet was in Mikhailovsky in the position of an exile. The owner of the Trigorsky estate, neighboring with Mikhailovsky, turned out to be a relative of Kern, P.A. Osipov, in whose family he was warmly received. Anna Petrovna visited 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", where the message "K ***" was enclosed.
The first stanza (there are six quatrains in total in the poem, iambic tetrameter with cross rhyme) refers to the past, when a meeting took place, which the lyrical hero recalls as a vision of the ideal. Understanding the reminiscent background helps to reveal the meaning of the impression. The image of the "genius of pure beauty", with which the beloved is compared, belongs to V.A. Zhukovsky (the poem "Lalla Rook", 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 recalling a specific work, reminiscence is also important in connection with the fact that it evokes a number of characteristics of the ideal in the work of romantics. For Zhukovsky, beauty is a “guest ... from above”, visiting the poet in a dream, in memories, dreams, illuminating earthly life “for a minute”, which is remembered for a long time, “inseparable from the heart”.
The lyrical hero of Pushkin recalls that the meeting with the sweetheart (“cute features”) caused an awakening of emotions and reminded 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 are preserved even in separation, contrasting with the "noisy bustle" of everyday life. But they sound more and more muffled (in showing a silent spiritual storm, the motive of a voice that arises in memory, but then forgotten - stanzas 2-3) is of decisive importance against its background, the reality of the past is only a dream:
Storms outside world stronger than time, which did not affect the hopeless love of the lyrical hero, but even they are not in power to “disperse” (as their impulse “Dispelled former 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 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 - the experience changes character, becomes an internal sensation. And then everything external is relegated to the background. In the poem there is no motive for a romantic choice between two worlds, dreams and storms of life, “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 significance 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 dungeon, where the empty days of the lyrical hero stretch endlessly (the emptiness is emphasized due to the fivefold repetition of the preposition “without”):
In the wilderness, in the darkness of confinement
My days passed quietly
Without a god, 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 is deprived of is facilitated by the rising intonation, the idea of which arises due to enumeration. The top where it leads is the word "love". In addition to intonation, phonic artistic means, the unusualness of rhyme, help to elevate the concept. In four of the six stanzas, the same consonances in the 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 keyword(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 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” (a verbatim repetition of the images of the first stanza is highlighted):
The soul has awakened
And here again you came
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 ..." Pushkin's feeling is no less important than the desire for the infinite, and, in connection with the reproduction of subjective psychological experiences, it appears as a tangible and convincing manifestation of spirituality. In the last stanza we are talking about the miracle he did - after worries, disappointments, dangers, worries, gloomy forebodings, loneliness, the heart beats again in rapture, hopes and creative dreams have risen.
The ascending intonation leads further, and the main landmark is again highlighted at the top (the intonational elevation, enlivening the oral reading, existing in the mind of the reader, thanks to the inner ear, is facilitated by enumeration - for which the sevenfold repetition of the union “and” is used). The word "love" stands out thanks to a 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: "instant - vision" - 1, "imprisonment - inspiration" - 4, " awakening - vision - 5), then the male one is built on the assonance "o" (again - love). It prompts us to recall consonant words in the previous text, among which were confessions of a long memory of a fleeting impression (I remember, in front of me, fleeting, anxieties, years, tears - in these words “o” in a shock position) and an image expressing the tangibility of memories : “A gentle voice sounded to me for a long time ...” Together 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 ones, of your lives") and "y" ("wonderful, sadness, noisy, storms") assonance "o" gives a unique musicality to the poem. In the last quatrain, it sounds like the final tonic (main, reference tone):
And the heart beats in rapture
And for him they rose again
And the Divine, 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. inner life lyrical hero appears as a whole world where beauty and harmony reign. Its sound, phonic characteristics are not accidental, since the impression of consistency, harmony, proportionality is easier and more convincing to convey musical artistic means(harmony, from Latin “proportional, well-coordinated”, the area is called means of expression in music based on the combination of tones into consonances and their interconnection). 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 to read Pushkin’s poem “K ***” aloud, reproducing the rising intonation in quatrains 4 and 6 (the last lines of stanzas where repeated prepositions or conjunctions sound), as if rising to the top, where the final stanza word (“love”, “ love"). In addition, try to hear the melody created by assonances in strong places in the text, their combination with semivowels and sonorants. It will sound in a major key (from Latin “greater”, musical mode, the steady sounds of which create a cheerful, joyful mood), despite the hopelessness and depression expressed in the content. In the second - fourth stanzas, where we are talking about the loneliness of the lyrical hero (hopeless sadness, cute 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 conveying completely different feelings. " H», « m", and " l» with vowels form melodic combinations: then mlen yah, sound l me d ol th r olo With not well ny, With Nile is mil s, 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 characteristic feature lyrical hero in Pushkin's poems, showing his desire to accept life in all its diversity of features, to combine attention to detail with generalization, immediacy with philosophical depth. For him, there is nothing monotonous and complete in the world. For his soul, “Either too few of all, or one is enough” (“Having voluntarily renounced verbosity ...”, 1825), it all depends on the mirror where the real situation is reflected. But whether it brings the details closer or allows you to look at life as a whole, you can always see the “immortal sun” above the canvas (“ Bacchic song”, 1825), the present is perceived as a stage (“Everything is instant, everything will pass; / What will pass, it will be nice.” - “If life deceives you ...”, 1825), a moment stopped by the will of the artist, beautiful, “wonderful” or dreary, gloomy, but always sweet in its originality.
On this day - July 19, 1825 - the day Anna Petrovna Kern left Trigorskoye, Pushkin handed her the poem "K *", which is an example of high poetry, masterpiece of Pushkin's lyrics. Everyone who cherishes Russian poetry knows him. But there are few works in the history of literature that would raise so many questions from researchers, poets, and readers. What was the real woman who inspired the poet? What connected them? Why did she become the addressee of this poetic message?
The history of the relationship between Pushkin and Anna Kern is very confused and contradictory. Despite the fact that their connection gave birth to one of the poet's most famous poems, this novel can hardly be called fateful for both.
The 20-year-old poet first met 19-year-old Anna Kern, the wife of 52-year-old General E. Kern, in 1819 in St. Petersburg, in the president's house Petersburg Academy art by Alexei Olenin. Sitting at dinner not far from her, he tried to attract her attention to himself. When Kern got into the carriage, Pushkin went out onto the porch and watched her for a long time.
Their second meeting took place only after a long six years. In June 1825, while in exile in Mikhailov, Pushkin often visited relatives in the village of Trigorskoye, where he met Anna Kern again. In her memoirs, she wrote: “We were sitting at dinner and laughing ... suddenly Pushkin came in with a big thick stick in his hands. My aunt, near whom I was sitting, introduced him to me. He bowed very low, but did not say a word: timidity was visible in his movements. I, too, could not find something to say to him, and we did not soon get acquainted and started talking.
For about a month Kern stayed at Trigorskoye, meeting with Pushkin almost daily. An unexpected meeting with Kern after a 6-year break made an indelible impression on him. In the soul of the poet, “an awakening has come” - an awakening from all the difficult experiences suffered “in the wilderness, in the darkness of imprisonment” - in many years of exile. But the poet in love clearly did not find the right tone, and, despite the reciprocal interest of Anna Kern, a decisive explanation did not occur between them.
On the morning before Anna's departure, Pushkin presented her with a present - the first chapter of Eugene Onegin, which had just been published at that time. Between the uncut pages lay a piece of paper with a poem written at night...
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 anxieties of noisy bustle,
And dreamed of cute features.
Years passed. Storms gust rebellious
Scattered old dreams
Your heavenly features.
In the wilderness, in the darkness of confinement
My days passed quietly
Without a god, without inspiration,
No tears, no life, no love.
The soul has awakened:
And here you are again
Like a fleeting vision
Like a genius of pure beauty.
And the heart beats in rapture
And for him they rose again
And deity, and inspiration,
And life, and tears, and love.
From the memoirs of Anna Kern it is known how she begged the poet for a sheet with these poems. When the woman was about to hide it in her box, the poet suddenly convulsively snatched it from her hands and did not want to give it away for a long time. Kern forcefully begged. “What flashed through his head then, I don’t know,” she wrote in her memoirs. From everything it turns out that we should be grateful to Anna Petrovna for preserving this masterpiece for Russian literature.
Fifteen years later, composer Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka wrote a romance to these words and dedicated it to the woman he was in love with, Anna Kern's daughter Ekaterina.
For Pushkin, Anna Kern was indeed "a fleeting vision." In the wilderness, in the Pskov estate of her aunt, the beautiful Kern captivated not only Pushkin, but also her neighbors, the landowners. In one of his many letters, the poet wrote to her: "The windiness is always cruel ... Farewell, divine, I am furious and fall at your feet." Two years later, Anna Kern no longer aroused any feelings in Pushkin. The “genius of pure beauty” disappeared, and the “Babylonian harlot” appeared, as Pushkin called her in a letter to a friend.
We will not analyze why Pushkin's love for Kern turned out to be just a "wonderful moment", which he prophetically announced in verse. Whether Anna Petrovna herself was guilty of this, whether the poet was to blame or some external circumstances - the question in special studies still remains open.
A.S. Pushkin, like any poet, experienced the feeling of love very keenly. All his experiences, sensations poured out on a sheet of paper with wonderful verses. In his lyrics you can see all the facets of feelings. The work "I remember a wonderful moment" can be called a textbook example of the poet's love lyrics. Probably, every person can easily recite at least the first quatrain of the famous poem by heart.
In fact, the poem, "I remember a wonderful moment" is a story of one love. The poet in a beautiful form conveyed his feelings about several meetings, in this case about the two most significant, he managed to touchingly and sublimely convey the image of the heroine.
The poem was written in 1825, and in 1827 it was published in the almanac "Northern Flowers". The publication was handled by a friend of the poet - A. A. Delvig.
In addition, after the publication of the work of A.S. Pushkin began to appear various musical interpretations of the poem. So, in 1839 M.I. Glinka created the romance "I remember a wonderful moment ..." to the verses of A.S. Pushkin. The reason for writing the romance was Glinka's meeting with Anna Kern's daughter, Ekaterina.
To whom is it dedicated?
A poem is dedicated to A.S. Pushkin to the niece of the President of the Academy of Arts Olenin - Anna Kern. For the first time the poet saw Anna in Olenin's house in St. Petersburg. This was in 1819. At that time, Anna Kern was married to a general and did not pay attention to the young graduate Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. But that same graduate was fascinated by the beauty of the young woman.
The second meeting of the poet with Kern happened in 1825, it was this meeting that served as the impetus for writing the work “I Remember a Wonderful Moment”. Then the poet was in exile in the village of Mikhailovskoye, and Anna arrived at the neighboring Trigorskoye estate. They had a fun and carefree time. Later, Anna Kern and Pushkin had more friendly relations. But those moments of happiness and delight are forever imprinted in the lines of Pushkin's work.
Genre, size, direction
The work belongs to love lyrics. The author reveals the feelings and emotions of the lyrical hero, who remembers the best moments of his life. And they are connected with the image of the beloved.
The genre is a love letter. “... You appeared before me ...” - the hero refers to his “genius of pure beauty”, she became a consolation and happiness for him.
For this work, A.S. Pushkin chooses iambic pentameter and cross type of rhyme. With the help of these means, the feeling of the story is conveyed. It is as if we see and hear the lyrical hero live, who slowly tells his story.
Composition
The ring composition of the work is based on antithesis. The poem is divided into six quatrains.
- The first quatrain tells of the "wonderful moment" when the hero first saw the heroine.
- Then, in contrast, the author draws heavy, gray days without love, when the image of the beloved gradually began to fade from memory.
- But in the finale, the heroine appears to him again. Then in his soul again resurrects "and life, and tears, and love."
Thus, the work is framed by two wonderful meetings of heroes, a moment of charm and insight.
Images and symbols
The lyrical hero in the poem “I remember a wonderful moment ...” is a person whose life changes as soon as an invisible feeling of attraction to a woman appears in his soul. Without this feeling, the hero does not live, he exists. Only a beautiful image of pure beauty can fill his being with meaning.
In the work we meet all kinds of symbols. For example, the image-symbol of a storm, as the personification of everyday adversity, everything that the lyrical hero had to endure. The image-symbol "the darkness of imprisonment" refers us to the real basis of this poem. We understand that this refers to the exile of the poet himself.
And the main symbol is the "genius of pure beauty." It is something incorporeal, beautiful. So, the hero elevates and spiritualizes the image of his beloved. Before us is not a simple earthly woman, but a divine being.
Topics and issues
- The central theme in the poem is love. This feeling helps the hero to live and survive in harsh days for him. In addition, the theme of love is closely related to the theme of creativity. It is the excitement of the heart that awakens inspiration in the poet. The author can create when all-consuming emotions bloom in his soul.
- Also, A. S. Pushkin, like a real psychologist, very accurately describes the state of the hero in different periods of his life. We see how strikingly contrasting are the images of the narrator at the time of the meeting with the "genius of pure beauty" and at the time of his imprisonment in the wilderness. It's like two completely different people.
- In addition, the author touched upon the problem of lack of freedom. He describes not only his physical bondage in exile, but also an inner prison, when a person closes in on himself, fenced off from the world of emotions and bright colors. That is why those days of loneliness and longing became a prison for the poet in every sense.
- The problem of separation appears before the reader as an inevitable but bitter tragedy. Life circumstances are often the cause of a gap that hurts the nerves, and then hides in the depths of memory. The hero even lost a bright memory of his beloved, because the awareness of the loss was unbearable.
Idea
The main idea of the poem is that a person cannot live fully if his heart is deaf and his soul is asleep. Only by opening up to love, its passions, you can truly feel this life.
The meaning of the work is that just one small event, even insignificant for others, can completely change you, your psychological portrait. And if you change yourself, then your attitude to the world around you also changes. So one moment can change your world, both external and internal. You just need not to miss it, not to lose it in the hustle and bustle of days.
Means of artistic expression
In his poem A.S. Pushkin uses a variety of paths. For example, to more vividly convey the state of the hero, the author uses the following epithets: “wonderful moment”, “hopeless sadness”, “tender voice”, “heavenly features”, “noisy bustle”.
We meet works and comparisons in the text, so already in the first quatrain we see that the appearance of the heroine is compared with a fleeting vision, and she herself is compared with the genius of pure beauty. The metaphor “a rebellious storm dispelled former dreams” emphasizes how time unfortunately takes away from the hero his only consolation - the image of his beloved.
So, beautifully and poetically, A.S. Pushkin was able to tell his love story, unnoticed by many, but dear to him.
Interesting? Save it on your wall!"I remember a wonderful moment..."- one of the most remarkable poems of Pushkin. It was written between July 16 and 19, 1825, and is dedicated to the beauty of St. Petersburg, Anna Kern. For the first time, the poet saw his future beloved in 1819 at a gala reception. Pushkin immediately inflamed with passion for a beautiful woman. But Anna was married. The poet, according to the laws of secular society, was not allowed to express his tender feelings for a married lady. Therefore, Anna Kern remained in the memory of Alexander Pushkin "genius of pure beauty", "a fleeting vision".
In 1825 they met again at the Trigorskoye estate. At that time, the poet was serving a link in the neighboring village of Mikhailovskoye. Anna had already divorced, and nothing prevented Pushkin from confessing his love. But Alexander Sergeevich was interested in Anna Kern only as a young poet, covered with glory. There were rumors in the district about Anna's constant novels, which Pushkin also became aware of. An unpleasant explanation took place between the young people, which put an end to their relationship. But Pushkin nevertheless dedicated several poems to Anna Kern, among which “I remember a wonderful moment ...” occupies a special place. In 1827, it was published by Delvig in the almanac "Northern Flowers".
In a short poem, Pushkin managed to reveal the whole story of his acquaintance with Anna Kern and the feelings that he had for a woman who captivated his imagination for many years.
Composition the works can be conditionally divided into three fragments, which differ in meaning and in the mood of the lyrical hero. In the first part, we are talking about how memories of a meeting with a beautiful creature live in the heart of the poet. Then Pushkin describes the dark days in captivity that pass without inspiration, without a deity. And in the third part of the poem, the soul of the lyrical hero regains happiness, is ready to love and create. The semantic repetition and line call at the beginning and end of the work give grounds to consider the composition circular.
genre poems "I remember a wonderful moment ..." - a love message. But it also contains serious philosophical reflections. In addition, a part of the poet's biography can be traced in the work. One can clearly trace its stages: the first and second stanzas are Petersburg; the third is the southern link; the fourth and fifth are exile to Mikhailovskoye.
Pushkin admits that after the first meeting, in his imagination, the gentle voice of his beloved sounded for a long time and dreamed "cute features". But youthful dreams are in the past. During the separation, the poet became famous, although he did not lose his former sharpness of feelings. The link to Mikhailovskoye was the last straw that overflowed the cup of despondency. The poet lost the company of friends and relatives, the opportunity to shine with his talent in the world. The second meeting with an almost forgotten lover revived feelings, after a long spiritual crisis, inspiration again appeared.
By the power of Pushkin's great talent, this love story ceases to be a plot on a local scale. The reader gets the impression that the poem "I remember a wonderful moment ..." is an appeal to all lovers. The heroine in the image of Anna Kern rises to a poetic ideal.
For a detailed description state of mind the author successfully uses the hero epithets: "celestial features", "hopeless sadness", "wonderful moment". But in general, the work strikes literary critics with a small set of expressive means. It has only one metaphor – "The rebellious storm dispelled former dreams", and two more comparisons – "like a fleeting vision, like a genius of pure beauty".
A poem is written iambic pentameter with cross rhyming - ABAB. Each stanza contains a complete thought. The rhythm of the verse is very clear and musical. This is facilitated by through rhymes (vision - imprisonment - inspiration - awakening) and alliteration to the consonants "m", "l", "n". The undulating alternation of iambic feet enhances the melodic sounding of the lines.
It is not surprising that such a musical poem has been set to music more than twenty times. The most famous was the romance, created in 1840 by the famous composer Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka. So the brilliant work got a no less magnificent frame. Interestingly, Glinka wrote his romance under the impression of meeting Anna Kern's daughter, Catherine.
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