In Vain I've Thought to Hide
In Vain I've Thought to Hide - meaning Summary
Love Acknowledged, Quietly Ended
Pushkin’s short lyric registers the quiet end of a romantic attachment. The speaker addresses an "enchanting friend," confessing that attempts to hide inner turmoil have failed and that passion has waned. Joyous hours and youthful hopes are mourned as irretrievably lost. The tone is resigned rather than bitter: the poem records acceptance of love’s decline and the extinguishing of earlier expectation.
Read Complete AnalysesIn vain I’ve thought to hide, O, my enchanting friend, The roughly cheated heart’s indifferent agitation. You’ve understood me well – it’s passing by – my passion, My love is coming to its end ... And they’re forever lost – the hours of exultation, The blessed time’s changed by one, the hard, Extinguished all youthful intentions, And hope died in my heart. Translated by Yevgeny Bonver
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