Akermanian steppes

This poem opens the entire series of Crimean Sonnets written under the impressions of the Crimea trip, which the poet made in 1825 year. Cycle, As we mentioned, created 18 texts subordinated to the rules of the Italian sonnet.

The steppe from this song is a huge space, Dry ocean space, Sea of ​​wavy meadows, flowers, among which man is only a dandy lost in an endless landscape. The first stanza shows this landscape on the day, while the second in the evening. Both stanzas, what the poetics of the sonnet require, They are descriptive. The author built a very plastic one, at the same time dynamic, Painting paintings with contrasting colors, in a slightly impressionist way showed the variability of the steppe landscape depending on the time of day, lighting. Great, An unimportant space is friendly in this sonneet, The song initially stays in the mood of a quiet contemplation of nature:

The darkness is already falling, nowhere dear than a barrow;
I look at the sky, I'm looking for stars, Guide of Łódź;
There she gave shine cloud? There dawn rises?
It shines the Dniester, This was the lamp of Akerman.

This atmosphere of peace is destroyed by the last two, reflective stanzas. It's still quiet, But this silence brings anxiety, increasing emotional tension. The lyrical subject is hearing, The subject of his attention, however, is not the sounds of the life of the steppe (these are clearly heard), But the sounds flowing from Lithuania. Naturally, it is a poetic metaphor for the one hand to emphasize the attachment to the native landscape (unforgettable even in the face of the beauty of an exotic landscape), On the other hand, the signal of the final farewell to Lithuania: Let's go, Nobody calls! You can't hear a voice from Lithuania, You have to master your emotions, travel.

Let us note, that imaging the first two stanzas is based on references to artistic images, However, the two final verses are the accumulation of language means to give away acoustic effects. The latter increase the loneliness of the lyrical subject, longing for the family sides.