Sparrow Hills (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Boris Pasternak
- First Published: 1922
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Nature, Forests or forestry, Old age or elderly people, Russia or Russian people, Water, Cities or towns, Summer
The Poem
“Sparrow Hills” is a lyric poem consisting of five stanzas of conventional quatrains, with the regular rhyming scheme abab. The title refers to a hilly section of Moscow situated on a bend of the Moscow River. At the time of the writing of this poem (1917), Sparrow Hills was an area on the edge of Moscow, but now it is completely inside the city limits, near Moscow University. The poem is written in the first person, with Boris Pasternak addressing directly either the reader or himself, now describing the scenery, now expressing his thoughts and feelings or...
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