“Eda” Baratynsky in brief summary
The action of the poem takes place in Finland in about 1807-1808.
In the spring, at sunset, two people are talking in front of the hut: the young Finn, the “kind Ed” with “golden eyes” and “pale blue eyes” and the Russian “young hussar”, a guest in her house. They are surrounded by majestic paintings: mountains, waterfalls, a pine forest: “Is not the world of old lies / the ruins of morose?”
Hussar assures the girl that she looks like his beloved sister, left in his homeland, and asks Eda for sisterly love. Ed listens to him trustingly; When the hussar presses her hand to her heart, she tries to get angry, but can not: “The cheerfulness was clear / In her infantile eyes.” Eda answers the hussar that he sees his love and has long answered him with love: “Is it not always / I please you hasten?” – recalls that she gave him a ring that brings flowers every morning, which is shared by
This kiss deprives Ed of the usual carelessness. Turning to his heroine, the poet says: “On the stones of your pink / Spring is playfully brightened, / And the bright green moss on them Its terrible it is mine / You are a magical spring…”
The former simple and friendly relations with the hussar, when she played with him and enjoyed cheap gifts, are no longer possible: the girl hardly talks to him in public, but she does not take his eyes off him, but alone “the passion of the disastrous is full, / her mouth is she / Turns to his kisses, “and then tormented by repentance and cries.
Ed’s harsh father, fearing that the hussar will seduce and abandon her, warns: “A slut is not my daughter.”
The next evening, Eda in her room reads the Bible, with “habitual yearning” remembering the lost “heart purity.” A hussar “sly”
Eda vaguely feels the insincerity of the seducer, and, pressing the Bible to her breast, exclaims first: “Leave me, wicked spirit!” – But soon gives way: “I own it myself! / And what I know!”
In the evening the girl hesitates and nevertheless closes the door. Curling her hair and undressing, she thinks to fall asleep, but she can not, she reproaches herself for “self-willedness” and finally unlocks the door; The hussar is already waiting for the door.
“Alas, went to this night / He desired victory…” In the morning, the heroine, stricken by the accomplished, cries and does not listen to the oath of the hussar.
Soon, however, she forgives the seducer and no longer part with it: “behind him, she, like a doe manual, / Everywhere walks”. During the peaceful dates, the heroine is haunted by forebodings: she realizes that the hussar will soon leave her. Eda tries not to annoy the hussar with her anguish, but her “dreary love” and tenderness already weigh him. To the joy of the hussar, the Russian-Swedish war begins, and the regiment marches on a campaign.
Parting with Eda, the hussar is ashamed to look at her; she is silent, does not cry, “dead face, dead soul.”
In Finland it’s winter. Ed, withered from grief, is waiting for death: “When, when you shift, blizzard, / From the face of the earth is my easy trail?” The poem ends with a description of the abandoned grave of Eda.
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