I Don't Deplore the Years
I Don't Deplore the Years - meaning Summary
Longing for Lost Spring
Pushkin’s poem balances acceptance with yearning. The speaker refuses to regret youthful excesses, false friends, and fleeting passions, acknowledging them as part of life. Yet he mourns the loss of genuine warmth, creative fervor, and hopeful silence that sustained his early years. The closing plea for the return of spring frames the poem as a meditation on memory: not penitence for past behavior but a longing for restored inspiration and heartfelt connection.
Read Complete AnalysesI don't deplore the years of my spring, where dreams and life were never in connection, I don't deplore the nights' mysterious ring, sang by a lyre in a fiery passion. I don't deplore the false and faithless friends, the wreaths of feasts, the bowls of the parties, I don't deplore the beautiful adulteries - a thoughtful stranger, i avoid these trends. But where's the time of gentle inclination, of hearty silence and young hopes' strings? Where are the flame and tears of inspiration? Come back again, the years of my spring!
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