him and together “…gallop[ing] across the snowy midnight fields in a sleigh, passing churches and peasant huts”(Semenko, 92). Then, when she walks into one of the huts, she sees a corpse that struggles to rise from the coffin to seize her; the corpse turns out to be her betrothed. The dream is really troubles Svetlana, because she fears that her beloved had died. However, the next day, her fianc returns home safely.In Eugene Onegin, Pushkin uses a similar theme of a dream that Tatyana has where she sees Onegin having a feast with many different unnatural creatures. The dream really bothers her, but she cannot understand its meaning. Pushkin wanted to establish an extremely meaning connection by directly alluding to Svetlana in Chapter V.10:But sudden dread befell Tatyana…And I, too - thinking of Svetlana,A dread befell me – never mind…We will not be with her, I find, To conjure. Pushkin wants its audience to feel the same sentimental feelings towards Tatyana’s dream as they felt toward Zhukovsky’s Svetlana. The allusion to Svetlana preludes to something tragic, or dramatic that will happen to Tatyana. Moreover, by alluding to Svetlana, Pushkin exposes the reader to what will happen shortly. The epigraph to Chapter V, "Know not those fearsome dreams, O my Svetlana!", serves the above purpose. Furthermore, Pushkin almost recreates the scenario of Zhukovsky’s ballad. He is suggesting that since Svetlana’s dream was not true, Tatyana’s dream is meaningless and is a mere reflection of her vigor imagination and unfulfilled love. In both poems, the heroines are walking in a snowy field, and both find their dream really puzzling, frightening, and enigmatic, however they are each reunited with their beloveds soon after. "Zhukovsky undoubtedly wished to portray his heroine as a character type of national Russian girl in whom the qualities he highlights are gentle...
