Awakening (Translated by Yevgeny Bonver) - By: A.S. Pushkin

Мечты, мечты,
Где ваша сладость?
Где ты, где ты,
Ночная радость?
Исчезнул он,
Веселый сон,
И одинокий
Во тьме глубокой
Я пробужден.
Кругом постели
Немая ночь.
Вмиг охладели,
Вмиг улетели
Толпою прочь
Любви мечтанья.
Еще полна
Душа желанья
И ловит сна
Воспоминанья.
Любовь, любовь,
Внемли моленья:
Пошли мне вновь
Свои виденья,
И поутру,
Вновь упоенный,
Пускай умру
Непробужденный.

O dreams, my dreams,
Where is your sweetness?
Where are you,
Joy of nightly fleetness?
They're gone away -
My fancies, gay,
And now alone
In darkness grown
I, sleepless, stay.

A mute night hovers
My bed above
In a flash lone
Turned cool and gone
Dreams of my love,
Like a tense crown.
But still heart beats
The longings' sound
And catches bits
Of dreams around.

Love, hear my plea,
Hark to my prayer:
Send back to me
Your visions, fair,
And by morn sky,
Again enchanted,
Let...Let me die
Still unawaken'd.


When I read this what most caught my attention was the APOSIOPESIS on line 26, in which the speaker is so overwrought with emotion that he must stop and begin again on that phrase. Other interesting devices used was ONOMATOPOEIA and ALLITERATION on lines 16 and 18 in which Pushkin specifically uses the words "beats" and "bits", giving the sound of a beating heart. Also, lines 10 to 13 is FREE VERSE for it is the only section in the entire poem that strays away from the rhyming pattern.