Gay Feast
love
freedom
lyric poem
joyful
I love the festive board Where joy's the one presiding, And freedom, my adored, The banquet's course is guiding. When "Drink!" half-drowns the song That only morning throttles, When wide-flung is the throng, And close the jostling bottles.
Gay Feast - meaning Summary
Communal Revelry and Freedom
Pushkin’s short lyric celebrates the pleasures of a boisterous social gathering where joy and personal freedom preside. The speaker values music, drink, and the press of company as a temporary release from routine, praising the communal intimacy and spirited disorder of a banquet. The poem focuses on atmosphere and feeling rather than narrative, presenting revelry as a chosen mode of life and brief emancipation from constraint.
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