“...a Thinking Person is Restless and Worried about the Future”: Premonitions in Three Boldin Poems by A. S. Pushkin

Abstract

Three poems by A. S. Pushkin, created during the Boldino autumn, are marked by a single mood: concern for the future, a premonition of interference in the fate of the poet by destructive evil forces. These are the well-known works “Demons” (September 7, 1830), “Elegy” (“The Faded Fun of Mad Years...”) (September 8, 1830) and “Poems composed at Night during Insomnia” (October 1830).

The paper, having studied and analyzed the above texts and the letters from Boldino, highlights the sources and artistic dominants in which the poet finds his expression of the premonition of future, as well as philosophical deliberations inscribed in the context of his poetry and in the creative quest of his contemporaries.