I'm Left Alone at
I'm Left Alone at - meaning Summary
Youth's Pleasures Turned Thin
Pushkin’s poem records a speaker confronting the end of youthful pleasure and social excess. The celebratory scenes—feasts, mistresses, friends—have evaporated, leaving a bleak recognition that earlier joys were illusory. Images of candles and fading light underscore the suddenness of loss and the transition from nocturnal revelry to sober day. The tone is resigned; the speaker accepts that youth’s profusions cannot persist into mature solitude.
Read Complete AnalysesI'm left alone at my ends, The feasts, the mistresses, the friends Had vanished with the slim illusions - My youth had faded right away With all its gifts of false allusions. Like this, the candles, that through night Were burning for young feasters' sight, In ending of the mad profusion, Are paling in the light of day. Translated by Yevgeny Bonver
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