Russia’s Bard: Aleksandra Pushkin as a Forerunner of Modern Russian Literature

Abstract

Aleksandre Pushkin has become the face of Russian literature with his original contribution in literature and his representation of national culture. The thrust area of the present paper would be on the ‘Russian’s Bard’, Aleksandre Pushkin, the nation’s poet whose literary undertaking becomes a prototype of the Russian literature as it looms large into the 20^th century Russian literary culture. He becomes an archetype of the wide range of genres creating an ‘encyclopedia of Russian life’. Therefore, the paper would look into the themes of love, life, death and boredom in his poem, Eugene Onegin. The present paper would also trace the poet’s journey from Byron to Shakespeare culminating with an awareness of a mature perspective of his creative genius.