The Portrait
The Portrait - meaning Summary
Passion That Defies Limits
The poem portrays a fiercely passionate woman who pursues her aims with relentless energy despite social constraints. She moves through life heedless of circumstance, driven by an inner flame until her strength fails. The speaker likens her to a comet: brilliant, reckless, and singular amid ordinary orbits, suggesting both danger and singularity in her devotion and the inevitable exhaustion that follows unbridled striving.
Read Complete AnalysesWith her forever burning soul, With her forever stormy passions, Oh, northern wives, amidst you, precious, She sometimes follows her goal. And, passing by all world’s conditions, She speeds till her strengths will be ended… Just like a comet, injudicious, Amidst the planets, calculated. Translated by Yevgeny Bonver
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