His last year he began full of optimism: the revolutionary tendencies rose, and social theme appeared in his poetry again. In "Añ" ("The Consciousness") and "Dahigä" ("To the Genius") he wrote that his struggle, as well as the 1905 revolution, was not vain. Many verses were devoted to the peasantry's problems, resembling Nekrasov's poetry. More and more verses were banned; some of them were only published after the October Revolution. However, Tuqay was criticized by Ğälimcan İbrahimov, that now his poetry worsened.