Pushkin and Nikolai Gogol

After lunch, I went to Xinhua Bookstore and saw Selected Poems of Pushkin and Dead Soul on the shelf. I think I immediately went back to college. I read these two books when I was in college. I especially like their works. It is also an accidental opportunity. I saw the superstar teacher forum in the electronic reading room of the library. A lecture on Russian literature caught my attention. When I opened it, I found it was a university professor, about seventy years old. He sat at his desk and told everyone about Russian literature for 200 years in an orderly way. Let me start with Pushkin. The old professor read a lot of Pushkin's poems in the lecture, and the most impressive one was the well-known "To Kane".

I remember that wonderful moment:

You showed up right in front of my eyes,

Like a flash in the pan,

Like the embodiment of pure beauty.

Desperate sadness tormented me,

I'm very upset because I'm so busy.

A gentle voice always rings in my ear,

Charming figures always haunt my dreams.

The years passed.

Waves of vague impulses blow away past illusions like a storm,

I forgot your gentle voice,

I forgot your fairy face, too.

In the desolate countryside,

In the darkness of imprisonment,

My time is quietly extending,

There is no god to worship,

Without inspiration,

No tears,

Without life,

No love.

My heart finally woke up again,

You appeared in front of my eyes again,

Like a flash in the pan,

Just like pure beauty, body and mind germinate in ecstasy,

Everything is born for it:

There is a respected god,

Inspired,

There are tears,

Alive,

And love.

Besides lyric poems, Pushkin also wrote many long poems, all of which are very good. The most famous long poem is yevgeny onegin. I remember sitting in the corner of the last row of the classroom and reading it in one breath. I was really fascinated by this long poem at that time. In the poem, an aristocratic young man goes to the countryside to play. A girl fell in love with him and wrote him a confession letter, which he refused. He also molested his friend's fiancee, causing his friend's jealousy and finally killing his friend in a duel. Later, he returned to the city and saw a beautiful lady at a dance. He fell madly in love with her, but she was the girl who confessed to him before. Now she is.

? After introducing Pushkin, the professor talked about two other poets, lermontov and Chuchev, who were also great Russian poets in the golden age. Although not as famous as Pushkin, they all have their own characteristics and masterpieces.

? Finally, when it comes to Nikolai Gogol, Nikolai Gogol is ten years younger than Pushkin. They often write letters. In a letter, Nikolai Gogol asked Pushkin to give him a story, and he would write a funny comedy. Pushkin told him a story, so he wrote the comedy "An Imperial Envoy", which won unexpected praise. Now this comedy can be said to be a household name. After graduating from Nikolai Gogol University, he worked as a small civil servant for a period of time, and he had a deep understanding of the life of the people at the bottom of society. He lived in poverty all his life and his health became worse and worse. Later, with the support of his friends, he went abroad to recuperate.

When Nikolai Gogol wrote Dead Ghosts, it had been in his mind for a long time. He wrote in a letter to a friend that this work is very grand and will make him go down in history. The facts finally proved this point. The publication of Dead Soul shocked the whole of Russia and had a strong impact on Russian society, especially the decadent serfdom.

In fact, the book Dead Soul is about dead serfs. A swindler named Ji Chikov came to the countryside to find a landlord to buy dead serfs, because the serfdom at that time stipulated that even if serfs died, they had to pay poll tax. He wants to buy the list of dead serfs at a low price, and then use these dead serfs to obtain preferential loans from the government. In the process of dealing with several landlords, many ridiculous things happened. Finally, Kukov returned to the city and was sought after by the upper class, but his behavior was soon exposed by a landlord in the countryside. But those powerful people were afraid to touch Kukov because they were worried that he was an imperial envoy sent by his superiors. Finally, Kukov fled.

It can be said that "Dead Soul" exposes the decadent serfdom of tsarist Russia to the fullest, and Nikolai Gogol has also become a bright star in the history of world literature.