Intermediate Russian Grammar and Vocabulary through Poetry: Ночь, улица, фонарь, аптека (А.Блок)

This is my video of 2018. Yesterday was the birthday of Alexander Blok, one of the greatest Russian poets (1880-1921), that's why I decided to upload it again.
Today we are working through a very famous poem by Alexander Blok, "Ночь, улица, фонарь, аптека..." ("Night, street and streetlight, drugstore...").
Ночь, улица, фонарь, аптека,
Бессмысленный и тусклый свет.
Живи ещё хоть четверть века -
Всё будет так. Исхода нет.
Умрёшь - начнёшь опять сначала
И повторится всё, как встарь:
Ночь, ледяная рябь канала,
Аптека, улица, фонарь.
(1912)
Night, street and streetlight, drug store,
The purposeless, half-dim, drab light.
For all the use live on a quarter century -
Nothing will change. There's no way out.
You'll die - and start all over, live twice,
Everything repeats itself, just as it was:
Night, the canal's rippled icy surface,
The drug store, the street, and streetlight.
Trans. by Alex Cigale
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