I Do Believe in Happiness
I Do Believe in Happiness - meaning Summary
Belief in Simple Joy
Yesenin expresses an intimate, hopeful faith in happiness grounded in simple rural life and the Russian landscape. The speaker affirms morning light and ringing homeland as signs of promised joy, while embracing contradictions—shepherds’ sadness, "blessed dejection," and turbulent streams—as part of that faith. The poem links personal optimism to nature and national identity, finding consolation in elemental images and an unshaken belief that happiness will endure.
Read Complete AnalysesI do believe in happiness! The sun has not yet faded. Rays Of sunrise like a book of prayers Predict the happy news. Oh yes! I do believe in happiness! Ring , golden Russia, carry on, Oh blow you wind, so unabated! Blessed is the one who celebrated Your shepherd"s sadness, hope forlorn. Ring, golden Russia, carry on! I love the wild impetuous streams, The shine of stars upon the water. The blessed dejection, crying quarter, The blessing people and extremes Of roaring wild impetuous streams.
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