Several other poems center around the theme of life of Jesus, often emphasizing power and prestige which give way to collapse and ruin – before the resurrection and history. Zhivago’s gentleness of person and attention to the harmony with nature emphases consistently the person whom he is.Īlmost every poem has nature and images of nature at their center. After that things gradually seem to have changed and abandoned this dominant cyclical image of human existence and religion. It’s a fascinating world view and one seemingly most common before the Industrial Revolution. First birth to the development of spring, the death and then again, the renewal of the resurrection. Secondly Zhivago emphasizes the closeness of the cycles of nature with the life of Jesus Christ. He enriches his poems with many references and images of nature as mirroring human life problems and issues, and following a pattern of birth, development, maturity and decay. First there are the four seasons and Zhivago’s belief that life in general follows, as fundamental nature, the pattern of the seasons. The bulk of the poems have two features which are close to Zhivago. The notion of writing poems in a voice not one’s own and doing so convincingly is a noteworthy achievement to me.
In my college days I fancied myself a poet and struggled over the handful of poems I wrote, seeking my voice and editing constantly. What was pretty amazing to me is that Pasternak could not only write the appealing poems, but so within the character of Zhivago. There are lots of scenes I recall, including that Zhivago wrote poetry, but I didn’t have any memory that poems themselves had appeared in the novel. I read the novel many years ago, and have seen the film made from the novel several times. The poems are accompanied by dark but haunting drawings by Bill Greer. Pasternak worked with this project, choosing the order of poems and allowing for some editing.
This is a lovely little book which is excerpted from the novel DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. Boris Pasternak THE POEMS OF DOCTOR ZHIVAGO Book REVIEW THE POEMS OF DOCTOR ZHIVAGO Boris Pasternak
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