His life could form the basis of several adventure novels. His love is knightly worship of a beautiful lady. His uncompromisingness and desire to go to the end seemed absurd and dangerous eccentricity, but in the end it aroused respect even from his enemies. His death symbolized the death of an entire generation that turned out to be too straightforward to adapt. In his poems, Gumilyov was the same as in life - a frantic romantic, uncontrollably striving into unknown distances in search of true love.