Spring and Love That Lasts
Spring and Love That Lasts - context Summary
Final Year Disillusionment with Love
Written in 1925, Sergei Yesenin's final year, the poem sets a sleepless night against moonlit frost to convey a sense that youth has vanished and time cannot be reversed. The speaker rejects easy demonstrations of love, preferring the cold clarity of moonlight and distance, and imagines that true affection cannot simply be recaptured. Rich winter imagery contrasts with a longing for a lasting spring, while the speaker acknowledges that love, like life, can feel performative and fragile. The poem is often read as a meditation on disillusionment with love and existence in later years.
Read Complete AnalysesOh, what a night! I cannot sleep. The sky is moonlit. Well, I never! It seems that I in my heart I keep the youth that has been gone for ever. My friend of frosted bygone years, don't call a game love and affection, I'd rather have the moonlight rays flow down upon my habitation. And looking down from above let it depict my features here, you cannot fall out of love just like you couldn't love me, dear. We only love just once, you know, so you are alien to me, strangely, just like a lime tree, foot in snow, is trying to attract us, vainly. I know it well, you know it, too, what we can see at this late hour is frost and snow appearing blue and not the splendour of a flower. We'we had our love, our time and day each having someone to admire, and now we're fated anyway to play affection, love, desire. Come now, caress me, hold me tight, kiss me with hot, pretended fervour, and may I dream about the light of spring and love that lasts forever.
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