On the question of K. Simonov's creative evolution: from "The return" to "First love"

The article presents a comparative analysis of the poems «The Return» and «First love», the latter being is a reworking of the first one. Creating the image of the main character, Simonov moves from the type of neo-romantic wanderer to a realistically complicated image of the generation representative. In the structure of the new plot, romantic motives change the semantics, the form of the narrative becomes more complex, and the psychological nuances of the characters’ images appears.