Onegin Book I

This will be a very long, confusing novel to read. As I was reading Book I frantically, fifteen minutes before class started, the story started to fuse together. The order of the story was very jumbled, but I figured out that Pushkin, the author, is basically defining the society in which Onegin lives in Book I. Describing his childhood, background, and present lifestyle, Pushkin offers a basis on which the reader will, presumably, judge the subsequant plot. Book I was not the plot--it was the reason the plot happens the way does. Pushkin sets the scene for his novel in Book I, and I am interested to see if I can understand the next books.

The rhyming scheme is certainly different. The rhythm is best served if it is read quickly; although each line does not rhyme, the rhythm flows and rhyming words can be detected if the reader reads the text with pace.