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초록/요약

Researchers discussing Pushkin's autumn in Boldino mostly emphasize how intensely he was driven by creative passion during this period of isolation. Judging from letters he sent to his fiancée, it seems that Pushkin, like everyone else, was overwhelmed by the looming fear of death. The remarkable fruits of his creativity were conceived in the face of the plague's threat and the agony of mortality. During his quarantine due to the plague, Pushkin wrote a work about the plague, with the plague as its title. This paper aims to examine the issue of creativity that Pushkin sought to convey through the feast during the plague, by analyzing Walsingham's Song, a work that embodies Pushkin's creative prowess. For Pushkin, artistic creation was almost the only outlet for saving humanity in the age of the plague. Pushkin concentrated all his will to create through Walsingham, revealing that Walsingham's hymn to the plague was not blasphemy, but rather a will to overcome the plague through art. Pushkin himself overcame the fear of impending death through his passionate creation, and in this respect, Pushkin and Walsingham become one.