Leaving
Leaving - meaning Summary
Despair, Alienation, and Suicide
The poem "leaving" explores a speaker's deep weariness with his life and homeland, leading him to contemplate abandoning his current existence. He envisions a future as a wanderer, anticipating betrayal by a friend and rejection by a loved one. Ultimately, the speaker plans to return home only to commit suicide, detailing his simple, unwashed burial by friends. The poem concludes by contrasting his personal despair and planned demise with the indifferent, ongoing life of Russia, which will continue to experience both joy and sorrow.
Read Complete AnalysesI’m tired of living in my land with boring fields and buckwheat fragrant, I’ll leave my home for ever, and begin the life of thief and vagrant. I’ll walk through silver curls of life in search of miserable dwelling. My dearest friend will whet his knife on me. The reason? There’s no telling. The winding yellow road will go across the sunlit field of flowers, the girl whose name I cherish so will turn me out of her house. I will return back home to live and see the others feeling happy, I’ll hang myself upon my sleeve, on a green evening it will happen. The silky willows by the fence qill bend their tops low down, gently, to dogs’ barking, by my friends, unwashed, I will be buried plainly. The moon will float up in the sky dropping the oars into the water… As ever, Russia will get by and dance and weep in every quarter.
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