As a bonus the reader gets a glimpse into the beauty of Russian scenery and the changing of seasons. Through a relatively simple plot, Pushkin shares with the reader his views on things like love, literature, society and human nature in general. Plot wise, the novel tells a story of failed love, of missed moments and of the hypocrisity of the high society in Russia of the early 1800s. Pushkin uses the rhyming masterfully to reflect the characters' feelings and the pace of the novel in general. For the first time in my life, I think, I thoroughly enjoyed a poem and felt its rhytm flowing in my head. It's amazing how a text can be so disciplined, and how much power it adds to it. The rhyming in each stanza is a strict ababccddeffegg, all through the poem. "Eugene Onegin", on the other hand, is poetry at its best. I was shunned from poetry during highschool, discouraged by many modern poets, for whom a poem is just a story with short lines, without any order. Just imagine a whole novel, 200 pages of interesting and diverce characters, shiny descriptions of the Russian country, cities and seasons, love, hate, rivalry, envy - all in rhymes. "Eugene Onegin" is a unique novel - a novel in verse (rhymed).Īlexandr Sergeevich Pushkin is widely regarded as one of the brightest stars in Russian literature of the 19th century, and this book is a good justification to that title.
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