Goodbuy My Friend
Goodbuy My Friend - meaning Summary
Consolation in Parting
This brief lyric reads as a calm farewell to a close companion. The speaker accepts an inevitable separation and asks the friend not to grieve, suggesting that death is a familiar part of life, not an extraordinary event. Parting is framed as predestined and even as a prelude to reunion, which softens the finality of loss. The tone is intimate and steady rather than dramatic, offering comfort through acceptance. The poem’s simplicity widens its address: it reads as both a personal note and a general statement on mortality.
Read Complete AnalysesGoodbye my friend, goodbye my dear, you are forever in my heart. Predestined farewell that is near promises a reunion to those who part. Goodbye my friend, without hand or word, and don’t let sadness furrow your brow, in this life dying is not a thing unheard nor is living any newer show.
This is the very last poem by Sergey Yesenin. He wrote it in a hotel room, with his own blood, a day before committing suicide.
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