An analysis of Pushkin's poem to Chaadayev as an example of love for his country

Enjoying Pushkin's creativity, the reader is invariably fascinated by his amazing poetic gift and discovers one of the facets of the talent and personality of this poet. An analysis of Pushkin's poem to Chaadayev allows one to better understand what friendship was for Alexander Sergeevich.

It should be noted that the poems devoted to friendship occupy a completely special niche in the rich work of the poet. This deep and sincere feeling was born in Pushkin's soul in those remarkable years when the poet studied at the Lyceum and felt the spirit of camaraderie and brotherhood, meeting people who not only found him close in spirit and outlook, but stayed with him throughout life: I. Puschin, V. Kiukhelbeker, A. Delvig and others. It was thanks to friendship that the poet was not once saved from grief, sorrow and loneliness. It was she who nurtured his trust in people and faith in them, made the world around cleaner and more beautiful. This is what Pushkin writes about Chaadaev. Analysis of this poem makes it possible to understand in every detail the thoughts of the poet himself.

The lines that open Pushkin's poem to Chaadaev tell of a carefree, easy youth, full of love, hope, youthful amusements and glory quiet. With bright sadness, the poet conveys in words a painful feeling that comes during the inevitable maturation. It all hurts - parting with dreams and naive, childlike illusions.

An analysis of Pushkin's poem to Chaadayev shows that this poem is a message to a friend. His addressee was a friend of Pushkin, an officer, a philosopher, a member of the well-known "Union of Prosperity". That is why, along with friendly lyrics, the poem is permeated with political and civil motives, the expectation of a "holy freeman".

Immediately it is noted that Pushkin is very wide looking and perceives life around, feels a personal need to feel for everything that is going on with his homeland. It is for this reason that he calls on Chaadayev and all those who consider themselves to be free-thinking youth, to devote their thoughts and life to their homeland. An analysis of Pushkin's poem to Chaadaev clearly shows that the poet had sincere and strong hopes that one day autocracy will be overthrown, and Russia will turn into a free country and, perhaps, will not forget its heroes.

This poem without any doubt can be read as patriotic. The theme of motherland, motherland and freedom here clearly merge into a single whole. The poet was convinced that Russia needed educated progressive people, striving for freedom, loving their homeland, intelligent, honest and energetic. That's why he believed that one day a bright future will become a reality, that's why the poem has such a major finale.

An analysis of Pushkin's poem to Chaadaev makes it possible to feel in the strongest possible way all the integrity and richness of this work. Here everything is so important that it is even difficult to divide the work into more and less important thoughts, to highlight the most important line. The poem was not released immediately after the composition, but it was memorized by all the future Decembrists and all those who sympathized with them and empathized with them. Pushkin succeeded in light and light lines expressing all the feelings that the then progressive young people were getting at, becoming their peculiar mouthpiece and bringing to the next generations not only the ideals of patriotism, but the aspirations of their contemporaries and their own.