Her sister, Tatiana, who is sensitive, intelligent and kind, is a sharp contrast to Olga. Lensky is engaged to a woman named Olga who is a vain and shameless flirt. While in the county he becomes withdrawn and takes on a cynical view of society his only close friend is an emotional, young poet named Vladimir Lensky. When, one day, his uncle dies and leaves him an estate in the country, Eugene decides that he is tired of his vapid lifestyle and decides to retire to the country. He has no ambitions in life except to satisfy his own pleasures. The entire poem is made up of 389 stanzas of iambic tetrameter.Īt the heart of the story is the eponymous hero, Eugene Onegin, who is a spoiled, upper class, Russian youth who spends his time attending balls, drinking and flirting with pretty girls. This poem, more than anything else I have read, makes me want to learn Russian so I can experience the poem in its original language. This is a beautiful poem that contains so many layers of meaning and allusions that I am sure each time I read it I will discover something new. The English translation I got was the one offered for free on Kindle and translated by Henry Spalding. I have become very interested in reading Russian Literature lately and I decided that I have neglected this classic for too long.
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