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I have visited again

By Alexander PushkinSlide2

Brief Biography

Romanticism was not lost on Pushkin. He lived the life of a Romantic hero and created characters to fulfill his wildest dreams. Pull open The Poetry Archives at eMule.com where you will find sundry devils, charming water nymphs, and mangled corpses coloring the lines of Pushkin’s poetry.Slide3

Alexander Pushkin Background

Alexander

Sergeyevich

Pushkin was born on June 6, 1799 in Moscow. His first major work was the poem

Ruslan

and Ludmila. His political verses associated him with the Decembrist revolt, causing him to be banished. He worked on Boris Godunovand the novel in verse Eugene Onegin before Nicholas I allowed him to return to Moscow in 1826. Pushkin died at age 37 after being forced into a duel.Slide4

Thesis StatementSlide5

Theme and tonesSlide6

Theme

The theme of this poem is remembrance. This is shown when he talks about the house and what it looks like now compared to what it used to look like when he was a kid. Slide7

language

There is regret for a time gone by, a use of landscape to express emotion:Slide8

Tone Examples

'Where a road, scarred by many rainfalls, climbs

The hill, three pine trees stand—one by itself,' Slide9

Analyze

In just two lines he tells of time without mentioning time itself. There are three pines - two are of his parents? But one stands alone - Pushkin? The whole theme of the poem is one of knowing that all things pass and can never be the same again no matter how many times we revisit the past we can never change it.Slide10

Figurative Language

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Poetic DevicesSlide11

Figurative Language

This poem has similes and personification:

Similes:

Personification:Slide12

Similes

“Was barren, naked, a thicket of young pines has sprouted; like green children round the shadows of the two neighboring pines…”

“… but in the distance Their solitary comrade stands, morose, like some old bachelor, and round its roots…”Slide13

Personification

“… the friendly rustling murmur if their crowns would welcome me…”Slide14

Poem InterpretationSlide15

Poem say, Poem mean?

The speaker feels like the place he is visiting has had a profound impact on who he is. He explains:

"now that I am here again, the past/Has flown out eagerly to embrace me, claim me." Slide16

Behind the poem

The poem " I have Visited Again" focuses on Alexander

Pushkins

' memories of home after he was exiled. In the poem he talks about the scenery, sights , sounds that he enjoyed while he was home. Slide17

Cite Example

“Here

are the wooded slopes where often I 

Sat

motionless, and looked down at the

lake, Recalling other shores and other waves . . .”“When I rode On horseback past them in the moonlit night, 30 The friendly rustling murmur of their crowns Would welcome me.”Slide18

ConclusionSlide19

Restate Thesis

A man is remembering his grandfather’s house, from when he was young. His grandfather had a beautiful rose garden, pool and a big front yard. As an adult he went back to see the house again. The man imagined the house differently than what it looked like. The man brings his son at the end of the poem to see the house he grew up in.Slide20

Mood, theme, and more…

The attitude is happy and

hopeful, and The

poetic structure of I Have Visited Again by Alexander Pushkin is

freeform.

After a long time Alexander, went back to his old birth place, When he got there he felt strange and unwelcome. Slide21

Works CitedSlide22

MLA Guidelines

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