詩人と死

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Nicholas Nekrasov (died 1877) and George Ivanov (died 1958) are two completely different Russian poets. They differ in their destinies, their ideologies and their works. But both of them died after a long painful illness and both continued to write poetry throughout this painful final period. They left us their testimonies of what happens to the soul of the poet, of the person facing death. This paper compares the death poems, "The Last Songs" by N. Nekrasov and "Posthumous Diary" by G. Ivanov. A close comparison of these verses reveals more similarities than differences: the fading of colors and sounds from the external world; the disappearance of sun and light (a kind of solar eclipse); the abandonment by God; the desire for death, the eagerness for suicide; even the obsession of death. A dying person transforms into a whirlpool of Death, drawing in any who comes in contact his spectre. Nekrasov's poems, traditionally regarded as revolutionary propaganda, actually were the propaganda of death. Even in the verses addressed to their wives Nckrasov and Ivanov silently conjured them to die. Both poets wrote about the death of passion. But their death poems are not any less passionate than their earlier poems. The poems demonstrate that talent is not content, but form. And talent as a form is stable, self- sufficient, and unconnected with and unimperiled by death.
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