The speaker addresses someone absent or dead, a thing, a place or an idea, as if they could hear.
In White Nights
Oh, Nastenka, Nastenka! If you only knew what loneliness I am in now!
“Oh, Nastenka, Nastenka!” addresses her as if she were present, but she is not: he writes alone on a rainy day. The call, repeated by her name, says what he could not say in front of her.
Third and Fourth Nights and the Morning: The wait and the outcome, the Dreamer
O God! If only I could love both at once! Oh, if only you were he!
Third and Fourth Nights and the Morning: The wait and the outcome, Nastenka, in the letter
may you be blessed for the minute of bliss and happiness you gave another heart, a lonely and grateful one!
Third and Fourth Nights and the Morning: The wait and the outcome, the Dreamer
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