To Scherbinin
To Scherbinin - meaning Summary
Freedom from Romantic Passion
The short lyric presents a speaker’s admiration for a man untroubled by romantic love. Freed from passion, he escapes sadness and fills his inner life with pleasurable imaginings. The poem contrasts outward detachment with an active inner world, describing a private, carefree refuge—a fanciful harem—where desires are safely contained and enjoyed without consequence. The tone is observational, noting a condition of deliberate emotional self-protection and imaginative compensation.
Read Complete Analyses‘Tis bliss for him, friends of my life, Who’s not ill with a silly passion, Who has not time to fall in love, Who’s all in all and satisfaction, His sadness never can him find, His funs are really the endless, He wrought a harem in his mind, And there enjoys it without cares. Translated by Yevgeny Bonver
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