What's friendship? The hangover's faction,
The gratis talk of outrage,
Exchange by vanity, inaction,
Or bitter shame of patronage.
What's friendship to Pushkin? Its very basis he throws into question, implying we have two faces.
This poem talks about negative kind of friendship. There should not be this kind of friendship in the world. Negative kind of friendship is suitable only for conspirators.
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wonderful expression on friendship- Exchange by vanity, inaction, Or bitter shame of patronage. ///
i get a feeling that the poet was mad about something when he worte the poem
Emma, a seeming Russian, tells us it is a good translation. This puzzles me, because it doesn't make any sense in English at all.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
The hangover faction, suggest that a friend is like alchohaul, a pretense of joy through chemical delusions which in the end are a futile and somewhat painful enchantment, that would have been wise to take in moderation. In an era were facebook makes friends out of people we have no personal knowledge of other than a cursory and superficial pleasantries, it suggest that connections are doomed if they exists as surface niceness. A true friend is someone who goes beyond the exchange of vanity and inaction and is one who listens and excepts one through the worst times. That is a friend and Pushkin is merrily elucidating the qualities of what a friend is not, but which we generally go by.