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Original Vision Restored
The poem uses the image of a clumsy outsider smearing over a great painting to show how thoughtless present influences can temporarily hide true value. Over time the superficial coatings flake away and the original masterpiece reappears. Pushkin equates this recovery with his own heart, suggesting that social disillusionment and intrusive falsehoods ultimately give way, restoring the clear visions and longing for a purer past.
Read Complete AnalysesThe lazy artist-boor is blacking The genius's picture with his stuff, Without any sense a-making His low drawing above. But alien paints, in stride of years, Are falling down as a dust, The genius's masterpiece appears With former brilliance to us. Like this, the darkly apparitions Are leaving off my tortured heart, And it again revives the visions Of virgin days I left behind. Translated by Yevgeny Bonver
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