Pushkin’s Lyricism and the Evolution of Russian Romantic Literature

Abstract

Russian Romantic lyricism by Alexander Pushkin is culturally sensitive, grammatical, and emotional. As Russian poetry challenged late eighteenth-century European Romantic sentimentalism, Pushkin joined Romanticism. Without sacrificing compositional perfection, his lyric poetry expressed actual experience with controlled intensity, inner freedom, and gorgeous simplicity. This balance defined Russian Romanticism. Pushkin wrote vivid poetry with classical and folk music. It shows how these stylistic elements shaped Russian Romantic poetry's themes and culture. Pushkin's individuality, spiritual exploration, and emotional sincerity helped Russian poets depict national experience instead of European. The study found Pushkin linked political and personal issues without programmatic rhetoric. His restrained poems, like "To Chaadayev," promote independence and responsibility. His emotional and intellectual approach to love, creativity, and morality is shown in "I Loved You" and "The Prophet." Pushkin advised later Russian Romantic poets to combine culture and experience. The study also claims that Pushkin's lyricism made Russian poetry more flexible, expressive, and natural by eliminating ornamentation and artificiality. This language innovation gave future generations emotional and intellectual literary Russian. The study shows how Lermontov, Tyutchev, and Baratynsky gave Pushkin's poetry intellectual, emotional, and psychological qualities. Think Pushkin's Romantic-Realist bridge. Gogol and Turgenev saw Pushkin's lyrical narrative and sensitive depictions of inner existence as the start of a more grounded and psychologically aware literary tradition. Pushkin's poetry shaped Russian Romantic literature and fostered linguistic complexity, spiritual and personal freedom, and emotional honesty. His poetry reflected the tensions of his time and created a universal language of emotion and ideas that influenced Russian literature. Pushkin's creative imagination changed Russia's Romantic mood and set the stage for its literary successes, according to this study.