His poetry was marked in its first term by a romantic tone, dominated by the issues of freedom of the individual and the people, social protest, rebellion, loneliness, doubt and despair as in "A Poet's Death (1837)," dedicated to the death of Aleksandr Pushkin, "Song" (1839), and "The Night" (1839). The memory of the Russian Decembrists inspired "In Memory of Ryleyev," (1859), "I saw Them Coming From Far Away Regions" (1838), and "Beethoven's Heroic Symphony" (1874). Between the 1840s and 1850s, he wrote several novels in verse such as "The Village" (1847), "The One, Winter Road" (1856), in which he describes the life of the rural gentry and the peasantry under the law of servitude. His time in London corresponds to the creation of "Dreams" (1857), "The Night" (1857), "The Jail" (1857), "Matvei Radáyev" (1856), all imbued with tones of pathetic patriotism. One of his favorite genres was the epistle, such as his "To My Friend Herzen," "To My Friends," and "A. Granovsky." Another of his characteristic genres was his lyric poems in the form of monologue, such as "Monologues," "Meditation," and "Confession of a Real Man."