The Flower Say Goodbuy
The Flower Say Goodbuy - context Summary
Premonition of Farewell
This 1925 poem by Sergei Yesenin frames a farewell as both personal and existential. The speaker notes that flowers bow as if saying goodbye to him, signaling that he will not see a beloved woman or his hometown again. He portrays his life as learned day by day, lived with a smile, and insists that in their world events recur. He imagines that another man may come, and that future sadness will not ease the past. The poem is commonly read as a premonition of Yesenin's own death and as a meditation on being remembered as a singular, cherished flower.
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