Separation
Separation - fact Summary
Written During Southern Exile
Pushkin wrote this brief farewell poem in 1821 while exiled in southern Russia. It addresses a Lyceum friend and frames separation as both personal loss and a moral appeal: preserve friendship, freedom, and hope despite distance. The tone mixes melancholy and exhortation, imagining the friend’s future pleasures and urging constancy across fate’s uncertainties. It functions as a personal valediction rooted in the poet’s real displacement.
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