Sergey Yesenin and his poems

In the five-stanza poem “Xurosonda bir darboza bor...” the lyric hero falls in love with a fairy-faced beauty behind a flower-covered gate that he cannot open; in the end love of the homeland turns him back toward Russia, but he promises to sing of the fairy all his life in his own land. The repetition of a line in each stanza increases the musicality. “Dog‘lar ketmish majruh ko‘ngildan...” has seven stanzas and tells of a Russian young man in a tea-house who loves a beauty called the flower of Tehran, and shows the difference between Iran and Russia in the treatment of women (the veil): love, however, stands above such barriers. In “Singlimga xat” the lyric hero recalls the plum orchard, the way it was cut down for crops, the white birches of May days, Pushkin and Lermontov; at the end he hopes that when his sister’s children play in the garden they will remember the mad dreamers. In “Ona ibodati” a mother whose only son is in battle prays and in her mind sees him lifeless, clutching the enemy flag; the textbook interprets this as a symbol of courage and victory (it recalls the fate of Najmiddin Kubro) and says that for the mother the homeland and the son have merged.