A Spring Evening A Spring Evening (Ukrainian: Весенній вечір) or May Evening (Ukrainian: Майський вечір) , also known as Beside the house, the cherry's flowering...[1] (Ukrainian: Садок вишневий коло хати...) is a poem by Taras Shevchenko, written in 1847 during his imprisonment by the Third Department in Saint Petersburg. PublicationIncluded into the author's cycle In Casemate (Ukrainian: В казематі), the poem was first published in 1859, soon after its author's return from exile, and saw the light both in the original and in a Russian translation. In 1867 the poem's text was included into collections of Shevchenko's poetry published in Saint Petersburg and Lviv.[2] CompositionPresenting an idyllic picture of Ukrainian village life, the poem is a characteristic example of Shevchenko's masterful use of recurrent words in order to achieve euphony.[3] References
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