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The Forest Song is inspired by fairy tales, legends and beliefs Lesia heard as a child in Volyn, where "on a moonlit night I would run alone into the forest and wait for Mavka to appear to me. This image fascinated me for the rest of my life." It was here, apparently, that the poetess was inspired to tell about the tragedy of life for a person if he or she becomes empty of soul, renounces his or her purest feelings, and extinguishes the impulse to create. In fact, by betraying his forest bride, the protagonist betrays himself. Because Mavka is the soul without which a person turns into a werewolf.