Tatyana's letter to Onegin

Tatyana uses strong diction to portray her love for Onegin. Saying this, such as, "No, no one on this earth/Is there to whome I'd give my heart!" or "You were sent by heaven of that I'm sure" both bring across this point. Tatyana's love for Onegin is questionably an obsession. However, even though it may seem obssesive, Tatyana is truly in love with Onegin. At the time, though, Onegin feels that he can't be in a relationship because he is not ready for one. He feels as if he will fail her, and tells her that she'll be fine because her heart will heal in time. The roles switch, however, when Onegin and Tatyana meet in Moscow again. Tatyana is now married to Onegin's cousin, a very wealthy prince. When Onegin sees her, he realizes what he had lost, and immediatly wants her again. He writes a letter to her, she doesn't respond. Unable to hold his love in any longer, he goes to her house and confesses his love for her. She too loves him, but must remain faithful to her husband. Onegin begs for her, but it is impossible to get her back. He has lost her forever.

Pushkin Poems

Uncle is dying, he is caring for him
Hates assisting his sick Uncle
Uncle’s father had served a life of debt
Uncle’s father is a poet- studies economy
Yevgeny= narrator
Becomes successful of his studies
Theme of a party? He is the most important person? –dancing= important theme
Dancing at a ball- he is the center of the floor/attention
Love story with a girl- theme?
Girl from country-side, boy from city
Becomes friends with Lensky, a poet, when he inherits his uncles mansion and wealth
Yevgeny lives alone in his mansion
Vladimir Lensky= his neighbor- rich, handsome and presentable
Lensky does not want to get married
Olga
Tatyana is her sister- not as beautiful
Loves Richardson
Lensky’s fiancé= Olga
Olga’s sister Tanya falls in love with Onegin at dinner and writes him a love letter
At a party Onegin dances with Olga, even though he was “supposed” to be with Tatyana, who the party was for (nameday), and Lensky leaves in anger
Onegin rejects Tatyana (fear that he will fail her?) at the party after he hasn’t responded to her letter for several days- dances with Olga
Onegin and Lensky duel
Onegin doesn’t want to duel and tries to talk Lensky out of it
“no reconciliation”
The duel happens, Lensky misses, Onegin kills him
Onegin leaves the country side
Symbolism of door? Exits the door that Onegin enters?
Tatyana moves to Moscow and matures and changes to the point where Onegin doesn’t even recognize her at first
Onegin then realizes he likes Tatyana, when she is in Moscow, but it is too late
Tatyana is married ---to Onegin’s cousin, a prince (army man just like the ‘foreseer’ had predicted) and she doesn’t reply to his letters and rejects his love proposals
Onegin goes to her house- bold
Enters room she exits--- symbolism?
She can’t accept his love because she must remain faithful to her husband even though she is in love with him
Results in Onegin being lonely until the end of the story

THE love letter

How is your day?

I hope it's as beautiful as you, however that would be an impossibility, as you are more beautiful than the sun itself. I wish that your rays could warm my soul. I feel cold, but the thought of you warms core. You must be tired, because thoughts of you run through my head all day. I miss your loins of fertility. They are truly the most fertile in the land. I yearn to whisper to your eye; when do I get to see you again?

I have been missing you so badly lately I had to hire a local street-worker, named Helga, to satisfy my needs to distract me of the pain of you not being in my life. But it doesn't work, not even Helga, the number one street-worker in Russia, can distract my mind from the thought of you. Please don't be mad at Helga though, she is merely trying to have a steady salary to survive in this harsh economy.

But back to us, I love you. I love you more than the flower loves the sun, the bat loves the moon, the stomach loves food, the fish loves water, the caterpillar loves leaves, the bird loves worms, the earth loves dirt, the man loves money, the brain loves water. I love you so much that I need you. Be mine Tatiana.