Gay Feast
Gay Feast - meaning Summary
Communal Revelry and Freedom
Pushkin’s short lyric celebrates the pleasures of a boisterous social gathering where joy and personal freedom preside. The speaker values music, drink, and the press of company as a temporary release from routine, praising the communal intimacy and spirited disorder of a banquet. The poem focuses on atmosphere and feeling rather than narrative, presenting revelry as a chosen mode of life and brief emancipation from constraint.
Read Complete AnalysesI love the festive board Where joy's the one presiding, And freedom, my adored, The banquet's course is guiding. When "Drink!" half-drowns the song That only morning throttles, When wide-flung is the throng, And close the jostling bottles.
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