What Is Gone Can't Be Retrieved
What Is Gone Can't Be Retrieved - meaning Summary
Irretrievable Loss of Love
Sergei Yesenin's poem speaks from a speaker who mourns a vanished night and a lost beloved. The speaker cannot retrieve the sweet memory or hear the nightingale's song again, and autumn's damp weather mirrors his grief. The beloved lies in a grave, beyond waking, while the living cannot restore what once brought happiness. Nature, night, and the bird's song frame the sense of irrevocability. The refrain is simple yet devastating: what is gone cannot be retrieved. The poem presents grief as a cold, lucid acknowledgment of irreversible loss.
Read Complete AnalysesLovely night, I will never retrieve it, and I won't see my sweet precious love. And the nightingale's song, I won't hear it, happy song that it sang in the grove! That sweet night is now gone irrevocably, you can't tell it: please come back and wait. Autumn weather has now set in locally, with perpetual rains, all is wet. Fast asleep in the grave is my sweetheart keeping love, as before, in her heart. And however it tries, autumn blizzard cannot wake her from sleep, flesh and blood. So the nightingale's singing has ended, as the song-bird has taken to flight, and I can't hear the song now, so splendid, which it sang on that sweet chilly night. Gone and lost are the joyous emotions that I had in my life and conceived. All I have now is chill in my conscience. What is gone can't be ever retrieved.
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