Russian Poets Are Not Romantic. Poem by Liza Sud
Russian Poets Are Not Romantic.
Russian poets are not romantic.
Because nights here are very cold.
And to catch just one moment ecstatic -
You should be very quick and bold.
There is no romantics in Joseph,
Balmont - angel with shattered dreams.
And Verblessness of sorrow -
that is the Russian theme.
Loneliness is coldness.
I love it - so let it be.
It was not cold in snowy Kronstadt
since saint John became altruist.
He said to the one: 'I live for you' -
and there was a uniting flame,
that washed out all selfish sorrow,
and consumed the world by Christ's fame.
Where people are romantic then it hardly matters whether poet are or not. A wonderful poem, Liza....Romance is within us not outside, with age things changes and to keep the flames burning one should stretch extra inch...10++
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I would like to translate this poem
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4/25/2024 9:55:51 AM # 1.0.0.1119
Your bold statement - RUSSIAN POETS ARE NOT ROMANTIC - cannot be seen as a simple matter of what's true and what's false. You are writing from a point of view above literal truth or falsehood. As I read my mind was flooded with images of ROMANTIC RUSSIAN POETS - Akhmatova, Mayakovsky, Yevtushenko, Akhmadulina - but your statement is not about statistics but about essence, not what meets the eye but what reveals the soul. And so I must push aside these other, just earth-bound notions, so that I can see the VISION you created. I cannot sustain such a vision the way you and Joseph can, because part of me stays on earth, echoing Keats's sonnet, THE POETRY OF EARTH IS CEASING NEVER. But in your poem earth does cease (A UNITING FLAME... CONSUMED THE WORLD) and only Christ remains - and His heavenly Kingdom. As Brodsky wrote. MIRACLES, GRAVITATING TO EARTH, KNOW JUST WHERE PEOPLE WILL BE WAITING to ascend.