The theme of love in the lyrics of S. A. Yesenin

The work of S. A. Yesenin is inextricably linked with the theme of love; it seems that it does not exist without this high feeling. The soul of a poet cannot help but love, admire, and burn with passion. She breathes love, lives it, which is reflected in the lyrics.

The poet's first love is born in his homeland, in the “land of birch calico.” Poems dating back to this period (the beginning of the tenth years of the 20th century) are similar in mood to folk songs, full of rustic melody and melodiousness. Folklore motifs can be clearly heard in them (“Imitation of a Song”, 1910). From an early age, folk tales, sayings, and riddles sank into the soul of S. A. Yesenin. Therefore, his first poems are distinguished by their fullness of colors, sounds, and smells. His poems contain the soft greenery of fields, the scarlet light of dawn, the white smoke of bird cherry, the blue sand of the sky.

Love lyrics occupy a significant place in the poetry of S. A. Yesenin. His poems reflect the poet’s various experiences - the joy of meeting his beloved, melancholy in separation, sadness, despair. But the theme of love in his poems is closely intertwined with the main Yesenin theme - the theme of love for the Motherland. His love for a woman is revealed through his love for his native land. With an amazing ability, he animates the nature of his father’s land:

Green hairstyle,

Girlish breasts.

Oh, thin birch tree,

Why did you look into the pond?

The birch tree, his favorite image, becomes a birch-girl with a green hem with which the wind plays; maple on one leg; rowan burning with its fruits; aspen trees looking into pink water; rye with a swan neck and many other amazing metaphors and images create their own special world in the works of S. A. Yesenin - the world of living and spiritualized nature in which he himself lived.

The poetry of love, merging with the poetry of nature, draws from it the chastity of spring blossoms, the sensuality of summer heat.

The poet’s beloved is the embodiment of the beauty of the surrounding world, the beauty of his native village landscape. She appears before us “with a sheaf of oat hair”, “with scarlet berry juice on her skin”, and her “flexible figure and shoulders” were invented by nature itself. This is how S. A. Yesenin describes his beloved in the poem “Don’t walk, don’t crush in the crimson bushes...”, written in 1916.

In the poem “The green one is hiding...” the girl appears before us in the poet’s favorite image - in the image of a thin birch tree that “looked into the pond.” The birch tree itself tells us how “on a starry night” the shepherd “embraced her bare knees... and shed tears,” saying goodbye to her “until new cranes.”

In the early twenties, there was a sharp change in the poet’s mood in poems about love. Yesenin, having witnessed the events of the revolution, seeing the changes taking place in the country, deeply felt the inner mood of the people. It was reflected in the cycle of poems “Moscow Tavern”, where rustic song lyricism is replaced by a distinct, sharp rhythm. The poet, experiencing difficult changes in Russia together with the people, cannot determine his place in life, and suffers deeply from the consciousness of spiritual duality. He expected from the revolution the fulfillment of the dream of a “peasant paradise”, a free, well-fed, happy life on earth. But in reality, the ruin of the rural “Blue Rus'” occurred. S. A. Yesenin felt that harmony with nature was being destroyed. In one of his letters from this time, he wrote: “What touches me... is only sadness for the passing of the dear, dear animal and the unshakable power of the dead, mechanical... I am sad now that history is going through a difficult era of the killing of the individual as a living thing. , because what is happening is completely different from the socialism I thought about.” This heavy mood is also expressed in love lyrics. Here we will no longer find words about sublime love, there is no admiration for nature that was always present in the early poems. The poet leaves his “native fields” “without return.” "Yes! Now it's decided. No return...,” he writes in 1922. Feelings are trampled upon, momentary desires come to the fore: “When... the moon is shining... God knows how,” he goes “down the alley to a familiar tavern.” There is no beauty of a pink sunset, there is only “the noise and din in this terrible lair.”

The attitude towards a woman changes dramatically: she is no longer a slender birch girl, but a “lousy” prostitute who has been “loved” and “dirty.” She is dirty, stupid, and instead of love she only causes hatred. This mood of the poet is expressed in the poem “Rash, harmonica. Boredom... Boredom...,” written in 1923. However, such images are a demonstrative expression of the depressed state of the poet’s inner world. Vicious “tavern” love is a desperate poetic cry about the destructive passion of taverns. And yet, through the painful spiritual mood of the poetic works, the lyricism inherent in S. A. Yesenin breaks through, sincerity breaks out onto the pages of the poems, which further emphasize the deep tragic state of the poet’s soul: Darling, I’m crying, I’m sorry... I’m sorry... .

In 1923, the poet returned from a long trip abroad, which played a significant role in his work. He is disillusioned with the bourgeois-democratic principles of the Western world, and is also disillusioned with past ideals. S. A. Yesenin is convinced “how beautiful and rich Russia is. It seems that such a country does not yet exist and cannot exist.” He does not write poems about foreign impressions, nothing inspires him to create creativity away from his native land. His lyrics contain a motif of sadness, regret about lost youth, wasted years, wasted energy and time in taverns among tramps and prostitutes. Now the poet “sang about love” again, swearing off scandal. In the poem “A blue fire swept through...” he writes: I stopped liking drinking and dancing and losing my life without looking back. The lyrical hero is again enveloped in a “blue fire”, he is kindled by his “gentle step, light figure” and, of course, his hair “the color of autumn.” Love, as a saving force, leads the poet to rebirth, to the desire to live and create. In the poem “Darling, let’s sit next to you...” he writes:

This is autumn gold

This strand of whitish hair -

Everything appeared as salvation

Restless rake.

In the poem “Son of a Bitch,” written in 1924, S. A. Yesenin remembers the forgotten “girl in white,” and his soul comes to life again: The pain of the soul surfaced again. With this pain, I seem to be younger... Thoughts of a bright, clean village youth are revived in my memory. But the riotous tavern life has already left its mark on the poet’s fate and it is no longer possible to return the “former song”: Yes, I liked the girl in white, But now I love her in blue. During the same period, Yesenin created a cycle of poems “Persian Motifs”, the most famous of which is “Shagane, you are mine, Shagane!” It talks about how, being far from his homeland, the poet wants to tell his beloved woman about the incomparable beauty of the Ryazan expanse, which filled his life with bright, unforgettable impressions:

... I'm ready to tell you the field,

About wavy rye under the moon...

No matter how beautiful Shiraz is,

It is no better than the Ryazan expanses...

Like the entire cycle of poems, it is filled with a romantic mood and light sadness:

There in the north, the girl too,

Maybe he's thinking about me...

“Apparently, it’s been like this forever...” - this poem, written in 1925, pours out the sadness of unfulfilled hopes for happiness “by the age of thirty.” The lyrical hero was ready to burn with “pink fire,” “burning” together with his beloved. And although she gave her heart “with laughter” to another, nevertheless, this love, unrequited and tragic, “led the stupid poet... to sensual poetry.” Being rejected, the lyrical hero remains faithful to his former feeling. He finds again a faithful messenger - this is “dear Jim”:

She will come, I give you my guarantee.

And without me, in her staring gaze,

For me, lick her hand gently

For everything I was and wasn’t guilty of.

The poems of S. A. Yesenin continue to excite us with their dramatic lyrical experiences many years after they were written. This is due to the fact that Yesenin’s lyricism, tragic and sublimely romantic, evokes in the reader feelings that are close and understandable to everyone.

Municipal educational institution "Gymnasium "Dmitrov""
School conference of students’ creative works “Promising Project”

Topic: The theme of love in the lyrics of Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin.

The work was completed by: a student of grade 9 “B”

Chizhova Marina Vladimirovna.

Scientific adviser:

teacher of Russian language and literature

Khmelevskaya Svetlana Anatolevna

Dmitrov, 2016

Target:

Study the life and work of S.A. Yesenin and reveal the theme of love in the poet’s lyrics.

Tasks:

Study the literature related to the biography of S.A. Yesenina.

Systematize knowledge on the topic “Love in Yesenin’s lyrics.”

Develop skills in analyzing a lyric work.

To captivate listeners with the work of S.A. Yesenina.

Relevance of the topic:

Love lyrics are present in the works of many poets and writers.

The theme of love is relevant at all times.

Content

Love for mother

Love for our little brothers

Love for nature

Love for a woman

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4. Research, survey results

high school students.

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5. Conclusions.

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6. List of references.

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7. Application.

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My dreams go into the distance

Where screams and sobs are heard,

To share someone else's sadness

And the pangs of severe suffering.

I can find myself there

Joy in life, rapture,

And there, contrary to fate,

I will look for inspiration.

S.A. Yesenin.

When creating my project, I took this epigraph as a basis. Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin became an inspiration for me. Thanks to his work, I discovered my poetic talent.

Why did I choose this topic?

Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin is one of the great Russian poets. His work is unusual and varied. His lyrics contain the basic moral values ​​of man (love, freedom, homeland, nature, family).

Secondly, at the beginning of the school year, my literature teacher S.A. Khmelevskaya. reported that in connection with the Year of Literature in Russia, a competition is being announced to write essays dedicated to poets and writers celebrating their anniversaries. I had to write an essay on one of the proposed topics. I chose a topic dedicated to Yesenin’s lyrics. In my essay, I naturally touched on the topic of love.

Thirdly, studying the creativity of S.A. Yesenin, I was inspired by his poems about love and discovered a new talent in myself - as a poet.

Fourth, I love S.A. Yesenin and his work. He is my favorite poet.

His works taught me a lot, and therefore I could not help but take his work for detailed study and in the future for writing a project.

Life and work of the poet.

Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin was born on October 3, 1895 in the village of Konstantinovo, Ryazan province.

In 1904, Yesenin went to the Konstantinovsky Zemstvo School, after which in 1909 he began his studies at the parish second-grade teacher’s school in Spas-Klepiki. After graduating from school, in the fall of 1912, Yesenin left home, then arrived in Moscow, worked in a butcher shop, and then in the printing house of I. D. Sytin. In 1913, he entered the historical and philosophical department of the Moscow City People's University named after A.L. Shanyavsky as a volunteer student. He worked in a printing house and was friends with the poets of the Surikov literary and musical circle.

In 1914, Yesenin's poems were first published in the children's magazine Mirok.

In 1915, Yesenin moved from Moscow to Petrograd, read his poems to A. A. Blok, S. M. Gorodetsky and other poets. In January 1916, Yesenin was drafted into the war. At this time, he became close to the group of “new peasant poets” and published the first collections (“Radunitsa” - 1916), which made him very famous. Together with Nikolai Klyuev he often performed, including before Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and her daughters in Tsarskoe Selo.

In 1915-1917, Yesenin maintained friendly relations with the poet Leonid Kannegiser, who later killed the chairman of the Petrograd Cheka, Uritsky. Yesenin's acquaintance with Anatoly Mariengof and his active participation in the Moscow group of imagists dates back to 1918 - early 1920s. During the period of Yesenin’s passion for imagism, several collections of the poet’s poems were published - “Treryadnitsa”, “Confession of a Hooligan” (both 1921), “Poems of a Brawler” (1923), “Moscow Tavern” (1924), the poem “Pugachev”.

In 1921, the poet, together with his friend Yakov Blumkin, traveled to Central Asia, visited the Urals and the Orenburg region. From May 13 to June 3, he stayed in Tashkent with his friend and poet Alexander Shiryaevets. There Yesenin spoke to the public several times, read poems at poetry evenings and in the houses of his Tashkent friends. According to eyewitnesses, Yesenin loved to visit the old city, teahouses of the old city and Urda, listen to Uzbek poetry, music and songs, and visit the picturesque surroundings of Tashkent with his friends.

In the fall of 1921, in the workshop of G. B. Yakulov, Yesenin met the dancer Isadora Duncan, whom he married six months later. After the wedding, Yesenin and Duncan traveled to Europe (Germany, France, Belgium, Italy) and to the USA (4 months), where he stayed from May 1922 to August 1923. The Izvestia newspaper published Yesenin’s notes about America “Iron Mirgorod”. The marriage to Duncan ended shortly after their return from abroad.

In the early 1920s, Yesenin was actively involved in book publishing activities, as well as selling books in a bookstore he rented on Bolshaya Nikitskaya, which occupied almost all of the poet’s time. In the last years of his life, Yesenin traveled a lot around the country. He visited the Caucasus three times, went to Leningrad several times, and Konstantinovo seven times.

In 1924-1925, Yesenin visited Azerbaijan, published a collection of poems in the Krasny Vostok printing house, and was published in a local publishing house. There is a version that here, in May 1925, the poetic “Message to the Evangelist Demyan” was written.

In 1924, Yesenin decided to break with imagism due to disagreements with A. B. Mariengof. Yesenin and Ivan Gruzinov published an open letter about the dissolution of the group.

Sharply critical articles about him began to appear in newspapers, accusing him of drunkenness, rowdy behavior, fights and other antisocial behavior, although the poet, with his behavior (especially in the last years of his life), sometimes himself gave grounds for this kind of criticism.

At the end of November 1925, Sofya Tolstaya agreed with the director of the paid psychoneurological clinic of Moscow University, Professor P. B. Gannushkin, about the poet’s hospitalization in his clinic. Only a few people close to the poet knew about this. On December 21, 1925, Yesenin left the clinic, canceled all powers of attorney at the State Publishing House, withdrew almost all the money from the savings book and a day later left for Leningrad, where he stayed at No. 5 of the Angleterre Hotel.

In Leningrad, the last days of Yesenin’s life were marked by meetings with N. A. Klyuev, G. F. Ustinov, Ivan Pribludny, V. I. Erlikh, I. I. Sadofyev, N. N. Nikitin and other writers.

The theme of love in the lyrics of S.A. Yesenin.

Sergei Yesenin... For the umpteenth time I am re-reading his poems. And once again, closing the book, as if for the first time, I was impressed by what I read for a long time. No - from something felt, experienced with all my heart! A whirlpool of feelings beckons, enchants, takes you to unknown magical distances, where tenderness, sadness, delight, joy, regret, bright sadness, a beautiful dream reign... And - always - love. Love in all its manifestations - for the mother, for the homeland, for the animal and plant world, for nature, for women. Love, which has become the main theme of all Yesenin’s work, excites the hearts of readers. Each of us understands and is close to Yesenin’s lines of reflection on the passing of youth, on the discord between feeling and reason, on moral purification, on the contradictions of love. This list can be continued indefinitely - after all, the poet wrote about the most intimate, about what every person has experienced at least once in his life.

Therefore, it seems that he wrote about us - about everyone and at the same time about you, the only one, so similar and so unlike the others. The poet's love... In Yesenin it is beautiful and sublime, bright and tragic, illuminated by hope, sincerity, passion, purity, faith. From the very first lines, born in an ardent young heart.

Love for mother.

The image of the mother begins to appear most clearly in Yesenin in the last years of his work. Disappointed in a number of his own beliefs and ideals, the poet turns to the image of his mother and home as the only refuge for a person in the gloomy world of harsh reality. It is here that the hero of his works seeks peace and harmony. Researchers note that in Yesenin’s poems of recent years, the motif of the prodigal son is increasingly heard, who, having wandered around foreign lands to his heart’s content and suffered enough grief, is looking for a native place where he can be accepted and his spiritual wounds can be healed. Some readers are convinced that the poet intuitively foresaw his imminent death and unconsciously sought protection from the only woman who would always be responsive to him, merciful and would take him under her wing, hiding him from adversity.

"Letter to Mother."

The poem “Letter to Mother” was written in 1924. This is one of the program works of Sergei Yesenin. It's a comeback theme.

In 1924, Yesenin managed to visit his native village. After many years of separation, he finally met his mother and beloved sisters. This meeting could not help but be expressed in poetry, because Sergei Yesenin’s lyrics are distinguished by the unity of their problematics. All of his work is focused on depicting the dramatic fate of an individual at a turning point, presenting a kind of lyrical novel, the plot of which the poet made his biography, turning it into the story of “the poet Sergei Yesenin.”

The poem “Letter to Mother” is written in the epistle genre. This genre was widely used in Russian classical literature, but never has this genre been so tenderly and simply expressed. But the most important thing is that messages have never been so similar to a real letter. This is explained by the fact that this poem is addressed to the dearest person himself, therefore the entire work is written in a very confidential manner. Precisely and correctly selected vocabulary helps the poet create a special mood.

So they introduced into the poemvernacular:

They write to me that you, harboring anxiety,

She was very sad about me,

That you often go on the road

In an old-fashioned dilapidated shushun...

Or in another quatrain: “This is only a painful nonsense.”

Yesenin also easily and naturally usesvulgarismsAndjargon, which suggests that both that and this vocabulary are familiar to the poet:

It's like someone is in a tavern fight with me

A Finnish knife was stabbed under the heart...

I’m not such a bitter drinker...

As already mentioned, the poem is written in a confidential manner, and it is characterized byforms of conversational syntax:

Are you still alive, my old lady?

I'm alive too. Hello, hello!

Present hereappeals: “Are you still alive, my old lady?”; calls: “...nothing, dear! Calm down"; exclamations: “...and don’t teach me to pray. No need!".

The “random” choice of words, as well as these syntactic devices, create the impression of an unsophisticated conversation. And when the hero talks about the house or remembers the apple orchard, the poem appearsmetaphorical personification:

I'll be back when the branches spread out

Our white garden looks like spring.

Epithets:

Let it flow under your hut

That evening unspeakable light...

At the same time, the poem containssyntaxAndphraseologyhigh book style:

There is no going back to the old ways anymore.

You alone are my help and joy,

You alone are an unspeakable light to me.

Thanks to the interruptions of two stylistic plans, an intimate conversation becomes a tense lyrical monologue, an everyday fact acquires general meaning, simple human values ​​grow into symbols of the lofty and beautiful. Anaphoric repetition (“you’re the only one for me...”) enhances the expression of the entire phrase, which sounds even more sad.

The poem “Letter to a Mother” expresses the hope that overcoming soul-tearing contradictions is possible through contact with primordial, eternal shrines: the father’s house, mother’s love, the beauty of nature.

I'm still as gentle

And I only dream about

So that rather from rebellious melancholy

Return to our low house.

But the poem also sounds an alarming note: the hope of the lyrical hero is untenable. The reason for this is he himself, who has lost the ability to control his destiny:

Too early loss and fatigue

I had the opportunity to experience in my life...

There is a hint here that big and not always pleasant events took place in the poet’s life. Life, apparently, did not turn out the way I wanted. Hence the pain and bitterness expressed in the following lines:

Don't wake up what was noted

Don't worry about what didn't come true...

And the poet’s phrase - “there is no longer a return to the old” - sounds like the final chord of youth and dreams.

The lyrical hero of the poem “Letter to a Mother” captivates us with that side of his nature, which he himself called “tenderness.” It is much easier to talk about loving humanity than to be sensitive to the people around you (parents, sisters, brothers, friends...). And how often we are callous towards those closest to us, especially our parents.

Love for nature.

Most of Yesenin's works are dedicated to Russia.

From a young age, Russia, its sad and free songs, bright sadness, rural silence, girlish laughter, the grief of mothers who lost their sons in the war, sank into Yesenin’s heart from a young age. All this is in Yesenin’s poems, each line of which is warmed by a feeling of boundless love for the homeland. “My poetry is rich in one love - love for the Motherland. This is its leading theme, which fuels all my creativity,” said Yesenin.

No matter what the poet wrote about, even in the most difficult moments of loneliness, the bright image of his homeland warmed his soul. As a real poet, Yesenin declared himself from the very first poems.

“It’s already evening. Dew…".

Sergei Yesenin began writing poetry very early, and his maternal grandmother supported him in this. Therefore, it is not surprising that at the age of 15 he had already turned into a real poet, sensitive to the beauty of the world around him and able to convey it in words.

Simple landscape sketches, filled with tenderness and warmth, were found among Yesenin’s papers after his tragic death. The poet tried to publish some of his poems during his lifetime, but few of the editors of literary magazines at that time wanted to get involved with the teenager. Meanwhile, the poem “It’s already evening. Rosa...", written in 1910. It was written in Konstantinovo several years before Yesenin moved to Moscow. He did not dream of fame and success, he simply conveyed in words what he saw and felt. As a result, the most ordinary evening in the village went down in the history of Russian literature as an example of magnificent landscape lyricism, simple and devoid of pomposity.

The author talks about how he stands near a country road, “leaning against a willow tree,” and watches how the first drops of dew appear on the nettle leaves, and the light from the rising moon falls on the roof of the house. “Somewhere in the distance I hear the song of a nightingale,” the poet notes, and this phrase seems to breathe life into the peaceful picture he painted so skillfully and easily. Yesenin compares birch trees with large candles and notes that on this summer evening he feels warm and comfortable, as if he were on a rural stove. The world is plunged into sweet dreams, and even the wind does not disturb this harmony, which only nature can create. Continuing to listen to the sounds of the night, the poet hears how somewhere across the river “a sleepy watchman is knocking with a dead mallet,” scaring away uninvited guests.

This simple picture of rural life emanates calm and serenity, but the poet does not yet suspect that very soon he will dream of returning to the past. It will elude Yesenin with amazing speed, erasing his favorite images and memories. Only a few poems written in adolescence will become a kind of connecting link between the young poet and the famous Yesenin, the “singer of the village,” a drunkard and a rowdy. However, few people realized that in his soul, until his death, this man remained a defenseless teenager who knew how to see beauty in the sunset and drops of dew on the leaves of stinging nettles.

Love for our little brothers.

The figurative world of S. Yesenin’s lyrics is built on zoological metaphors, which is one of the features of his work.

It is worth noting that most of S. Yesenin’s poems related to animals end tragically. This is one of the features of Yesenin’s philosophical motifs that permeate all his lyrics, the main idea of ​​which is the frailty and finitude of everything earthly.

"Fox" .

The fauna of S. Yesenin is part of nature, living, animate, intelligent. His birds and animals behave naturally and reliably, the poet knows their voices, habits, habits. They are dumb, but not insensitive, and in terms of the strength of their feelings and experiences they are not inferior to humans. All of S. Yesenin’s poems about animals are plot-based; they reveal the image of the animal in situations that are dramatic for its fate. In the poem “Fox” Yesenin shows the ruthless attitude of people towards animals. The description of the shot fox sounds piercing:

The yellow tail fell like a fire in the snowstorm,

On the lips - like rotten carrots.

It smelled of frost and clay fumes,

And blood was seeping quietly into my eyes.

Yesenin, as it were, humanizes the main characters in his poems; they feel pain and sadness, like humans. Their strength is gone, there is no longer any hope of surviving or getting their children back.

Yesenin’s best poems about animals: “Cow”, “Song of the Dog”, “Fox” - are tragic, but at the same time there is no lyrical observer in them, from the outside, humanly experiencing the tragedy of a tortured creature (unlike Nekrasov, who endows animals with such humane -compassionate epithets such as “poor”, “heartfelt”, “wretched”, “unfortunate”). Yesenin’s tragedy is conveyed through the worldview of the animals themselves, which for the first time in Russian animalistic poetry is expressed in “improperly direct” forms of expression - as if the character himself were speaking in the author’s words: “The forest swamp swayed in the eyes... The wet evening was sticky and red” - conveyed from within the worldview of a wounded fox, for whom the whole world is drenched in her own blood, trembles with her trembling.

The shot kept shining through the prickly smoke,

The forest swamp swayed before my eyes.

From the bushes a shaggy wind whipped up

And scattered a ringing shot.

The animal, while retaining objective, natural features, for the first time becomes an unconditional and full-fledged lyrical object. Moreover, the tragedy of animals in Yesenin does not come down to experiencing their own pain - their world is expanded and warmed by compassion for the cubs. This emphasizes the transition to the animals themselves of that lyrical point of view, which previously belonged exclusively to the hero-observer, who humanly sympathized with their troubles.

Love for a woman.

Love lyrics occupy a significant place in the poetry of S. A. Yesenin. His poems reflect the poet’s varied experiences - the joy of meeting his beloved, melancholy in separation, sadness, despair.

Yesenin was very loved by women, but the poet’s intimate lyrics are often tinged with tragedy. Yesenin’s book “Moscow Tavern” includes two cycles: “Moscow Tavern” and “Love of a Hooligan.” They do not describe love in a high sense, but feelings characteristic of teenagers, when a woman attracts and irritates at the same time. In youthful immaturity, hysterical intonations appear.

Many of Yesenin's love poems are dedicated to specific women. For example, the cycle “Love of a Hooligan” is dedicated to the Chamber Theater actress Augusta Leonardovna Miklashevskaya, and the poems “Letter to a Woman”, “Letter from a Mother”, “Kachalov’s Dog” talk about the poet’s complex relationship with his most beloved woman - his first wife Zinaida Nikolaevna Reich , and the poem “Well, kiss me, kiss me” is dedicated to Sofya Andreevna Tolstoy.

“Well, kiss me, kiss me.”

Sergei Yesenin was officially married three times, and each of his marriages, according to the poet, turned out to be unsuccessful. However, he dedicated many delightful, tender and passionate poems to his beloved women. Among them is the work “Well, kiss me, kiss ...”, created in 1925. There were a little more than 8 months left before the tragic death of the poet.

The last period of Yesenin’s life is inextricably linked with the name of Sofia Tolstoy, who became the poet’s last wife. This union was doomed from the very beginning, since Yesenin did not experience particularly deep feelings for his chosen one. By and large, he didn’t care with whom he would go down the aisle again, and the poet agreed to the marriage only out of respect for his new passion, who was sincerely in love with him. Sophia, raised in an intelligent family and the granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy, was distinguished by her reserved disposition and chastity. These qualities irritated Yesenin, who was always impressed by passionate and temperamental women. Therefore, in a poem dedicated to his wife, he notes: “The boiling water of the heart’s currents is not in harmony with the cold will.” This phrase contains a hint that these two people are completely unsuited to each other, and one can only guess what might connect them in ordinary life.

The age difference between Yesenin and Tolstoy was insignificant, amounting to only 5 years, but it seemed that the poet lived a whole life longer than his chosen one. Therefore, addressing her in the poem, he allows himself a mentoring tone, noting: “Understand, my friend, you live on earth only once!” It should be noted that at the moment when this work was created, Yesenin and Tolstaya were not yet officially married. Moreover, the author did not even think about marriage. But it is obvious that the poet guessed about his imminent death, and therefore gave the world the following lines: “Destruction sang a song to me too.” It was during this period that Yesenin especially acutely senses how fleeting life is, and understands that it can end at any moment.

Therefore, he wants to get everything he can from her, declaring: “Until the end of my darling’s lips, I would like to kiss.” The poet hopes that he will find understanding on the part of his chosen one, who is really ready to sacrifice her own principles and forget about good manners for his sake. “Drink and sing, my friend,” Yesenin asks her, knowing full well that such moments of unbridled fun in his life are becoming increasingly rare and short-lived. And very soon the period will come when there will be no one to brighten up the poet’s loneliness.

Practical part.

One of the main goals of my project was to find out what students in grades 9-10 know about the life and work of S.A. Yesenina.

I conducted a survey in which I asked students 5 questions:

1. Where was S.A. born? Yesenin?

2. What date associated with Yesenin did Russia celebrate in 2015?

3. Name 3-5 poems by S.A. Yesenin, which you know by heart.

4. What topics did Yesenin touch on in his work?

5. What is your favorite poem by S.A. Yesenin?

During the analysis process, I came to the following conclusions:

28% of students in grades 9-10 know where S.A. was born. Yesenin.

74% of students in grades 9-10 know the date associated with Yesenin, which Russia celebrated in 2015.

37% of students know the poem “Birch” by heart, 15% - “Letter to a Woman”, 14% - “Go away, Rus', my dear ...”, 14% - “You don’t love me, don’t regret me”, 12% - “ Letter to Mother,” 7% — “I don’t regret, I don’t call, I don’t cry…”, 7% — “Cheryomukha.”

Also mentioned were such poems as “Cow”, “A Blue Fire Has Swept Up”, “Blizzard”, “Autumn”, “Well, Kiss Me, Kiss”, “Swan”, “Powder”.

36% of students said that Yesenin touched on the theme of love in his work, 33% mentioned the theme of nature, 23% - the fatherland, 7% - loneliness, 1% - freedom.

I was very interested to find out what the favorite poems are among students in grades 9-10. Most students mentioned works such as “Birch Tree” and “Letter to a Woman.”

Conclusions.

Sergei Yesenin, probably more than other poets, strived with his soul for goodness and love. That’s why this love, these feelings illuminate all his work so brightly, so warmly.

It is impossible to display the entirety of Sergei Yesenin’s creativity in one project. For example, on the topic of love for the Motherland in Yesenin’s poems, you can create a separate project. In his poetry, the Motherland sounds not only like Russia, but also like the place where you were born. Maybe that’s why he is close to every Russian person, be it a Muscovite, a Siberian or a Sochi resident, and for this closeness we call him a national poet.

The work of Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin inspired me to write my own poems. In the future, I would like to publish my collection of poems and write a book.

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Composition.

Hello, Svetlana Anatolyevna!

I am writing you a letter to tell you about my favorite poet, who turned one hundred and twenty this year. I'm talking about the great poet Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin.

During his short life he wrote many poems. In his poems, Yesenin expressed his love for all living things, life, his homeland and women.

I want to dedicate my letter to the theme of love in Yesenin’s lyrics. In his poems, the poet conveys various experiences associated with this feeling: the joy of meeting, the melancholy of separation, love impulses, the sadness of doubt, despair. Already in early lyric poetry, rich imagery and varied intonations served to glorify the beauty of bright feelings. The poet perceives love as a miracle: “Whoever invented your flexible figure and shoulders put his lips to the bright secret.” The poet was very loved by women, but the lyrics were tinged with tragedy.

Yesenin, who dreamed of a high feeling, of spiritual intimacy, shows only passion in his works. Such love does not enlighten, but devastates a person. Many of Yesenin's love poems are dedicated to specific women. For example, the cycle “Love of a Hooligan” is dedicated to the actress of the Chamber Theater, and the poems “Letter to a Woman” and “Letter from Mother” talk about the poet’s complex relationship with his most beloved woman - his first wife:

You remember, you all remember, of course,

How I stood, approaching the wall,

You walked around the room excitedly

And they threw something sharp at my face.

In the last year of his life, Yesenin created poems about love, in which he condemns lies in human relationships, writes with sadness about hearts that have grown cold, unable to give people love. These poems are very tragic. He considers himself no longer capable of loving, this is a fair retribution for the indiscriminateness of feelings. The only hope is that the woman he loves will remember him at least someday. In the poem “You don’t love me, you don’t regret me...” he writes:

He who loved cannot love,

You can't set fire to someone who's burned out.

Yesenin's hero goes from an enthusiastic perception of love, admiration for female beauty to the thought of the impossibility of harmonious relationships between two people.

One of my favorite poems by Yesenin, “Well, kiss me, kiss me”:

Well, kiss me, kiss me,

Even to the point of bleeding, even to pain.

At odds with cold will

Boiling water of heart streams.

Thanks to this poem, I wrote my own:

I can't look away.

Your scarlet lips left marks on my cheeks,

And your gray eyes intoxicated me more than once,

Of course, my poem is not the same as Yesenin’s, but my attitude to love is the same as his.

Now I understand why women loved him so much. They loved him not only for his beauty and charisma, but also for his ability to write beautiful poems. They not only make your soul happy, they give you a lot to think about and, most importantly, they leave marks on your heart.

And at the end of my letter, I want to tell you about how I became acquainted and continue to become acquainted with the work of this great and irreplaceable poet.

It all started when, at one of the family holidays, my grandmother read the poem “You are mine, Shagane!..”. It interested me. I immediately started looking for him. Having found it, I realized that it was incredible and the person who wrote it had great talent. Later I studied Yesenin’s biography. I was very sad when I found out that he lived only thirty years. And this year they gave me a collection of his works, which I read on the first day. Now, when I feel bad and sad at heart, I read and learn his poems.

Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin completely changed my attitude towards love. Even though his poems are masculine, I see myself in them. For me, he will remain my most favorite poet, because he changed me.

I fell in love with you without memory,

She couldn't look away.

Your scarlet lips left marks on my cheeks.

And I was embarrassed every time we met.

I remember that red rose you gave.

And your carefree smile that you gave me.

How I want to confess my wonderful feelings for you,

But I cannot confess, and it will die within me.

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The theme of love occupies a special place in Yesenin’s lyrics. True connoisseurs of Russian literature cannot be left indifferent by these heartfelt lines, filled with a living, bright feeling. You read them and it seems that you are touching eternity, since they awaken the most intimate feelings in your soul. The recipients of Yesenin's love lyrics are the women whom he admired and idolized. It should be noted with what sincere tenderness he addresses them, how charming he chooses epithets. Yesenin's poems about love are incredibly melodic and beautiful. I want to read them out loud, thinking about every word.

No one can remain indifferent to these stunning lines. In this article we will look at the theme of love in Yesenin’s lyrics. How is it different? What can be found in it that is truly amazing for an ordinary person?

Features of Yesenin's love lyrics

When you get acquainted with these mesmerizing poems, it seems that they touch every string of your soul. There is a complete immersion in the process of contemplating these heartfelt lines. You read them and are filled with some kind of majestic beauty that brings joy and moral satisfaction. The peculiarity of Yesenin’s love lyrics is that they fit very easily to music.

That is why so many beautiful and soulful songs appeared based on the poems of this wonderful poet. Literary scholars rightly call Sergei Yesenin a “poetic singer” who knew how to say a lot by expressing his feelings in rhyme.

“A blue fire started to spread”

One of the most beautiful lyrical works. The poem is imbued with tender feelings and reflects the reassessment of values ​​that occurs in the soul of the lyrical hero. It seems that he is ready to completely submit to fate, give up bad habits and even “stop making trouble.” The heart of the lyrical hero is filled with bright emotions; he feels within himself the opportunity to change a lot in life, to correct the mistakes of the past.

Sergei Yesenin uses very beautiful means of artistic expression to express his state: “blue fire”, “golden-brown whirlpool”, “hair the color of autumn”. It can be seen that the experience of feeling awakens feelings in his soul that lead to change. The poem leaves a pleasant feeling of gentle sadness for unfulfilled dreams and helps to remember real goals.

“You don’t love me, you don’t regret me”

The poem is quite famous and beautiful. These lines captivate the imagination and make the soul shrink with delight. The lyrical hero is in a state of confusion. The key line here is “Whoever has loved cannot love.” The heart of the lyrical hero is not yet ready to experience new love. There are too many scars in the soul that prevent you from feeling truly happy. It may seem that he is too withdrawn and is afraid of the onset of additional experiences. Moral torment causes a lot of mental pain, from which it is sometimes impossible to find relief. The lyrical hero is to some extent disappointed in life.

He simultaneously wants to change something and is afraid to accept significant events into his destiny, which is why the words appear in the poem: “He who has loved cannot love.” After all, there is always the possibility that you will find yourself deceived and abandoned. These are the feelings the lyrical hero experiences, fearing the onset of new disappointment.

“Dear hands - a pair of swans”

The poem is incredibly tender, reverent and filled with warmth. The lyrical hero of Sergei Yesenin admires female beauty and finds himself captivated by it. He wants to find his true happiness, but conflict is inevitable: there are too many regrets in his soul that interfere with a happy sense of self. There is a great focus on experiencing subjective feelings.

“I don’t know how to live my life” is an expression of confusion, anxiety and invisible loneliness. The lyrical hero is worried about the idea that most of his life has been lived in vain. It is difficult for him to decide on the direction in which he needs to follow. The feeling of love beckons him to conquer unknown heights, but he is afraid of experiencing disappointment, afraid of being deceived. The lyrical hero often turns to his previous experience in order to compare certain things and understand what to do.

“Sing, sing. On the damn guitar..."

The poem is incredibly sensual and dedicated to experiencing a passionate feeling. The lyrical hero feels like an unarmed knight who has embarked on an exciting adventure. He is attracted by wonderful impulses and at the same time wary. This is one of the most heartfelt works of Sergei Yesenin.

“I didn’t know that love was an infection” - this line shows how unprepared we sometimes are to experience the feeling of love. It frightens many people because they have to deal with something hitherto unknown and go into unknown distances. The lyrical hero understands love as “destruction,” which inevitably comes when it comes to a beautiful woman. He is already internally prepared for disappointment.

"Fool heart, don't beat"

The poem reflects the state of the lyrical hero, experiencing an existential crisis. The lyrical hero does not believe in love, calls it deception, because the feeling itself always makes him suffer. He has already gone through numerous trials as a result of past relationships and does not want to repeat the mistakes he once made. The work is shrouded in a note of sadness, but there is no sense of hopelessness in it. The theme of love in Yesenin's lyrics occupies a central place.

“I remember, darling, I remember”

The poem is imbued with a note of nostalgia. The lyrical hero yearns for the time when he was different: without thinking about anything, he started a relationship, and did not impose certain obligations on himself. He yearns for the past and seems to want to return to it for a moment. At the same time, some life circumstances do not allow me to return there.

The hero regrets some mistakes of the past, but at the same time understands that there is no more time left to try to correct them. Yesenin's poems about love are imbued with unprecedented tenderness, inspiration and light sadness. Strong feelings grip the reader's soul and do not let go for a long time. I want to re-read these lyrical works again in order to feel all their charm and grandeur.

Instead of a conclusion

Thus, the theme of love in Yesenin’s lyrics is a special direction in the poet’s work. Feelings and their development are of great importance here. The lyrical hero reveals himself from an unexpected and beautiful side. He has to learn a lot about himself, learn to accept his own emotional state.

When it comes to love poetry, the first thing that comes to mind is the tender, romantic and light works of Sergei Yesenin, who went down in the history of Russian literature as an outstanding lyricist.

The biography of the poet attracts special attention. Sergei was popular with women, and the author himself was incredibly amorous and emotional. He shared all his experiences and secrets of love stories with a sheet of paper, on which lines appeared that did not leave any reader indifferent.

The poet felt all the depth and beauty of love in the last years of his life; the collection of works “Persian Motifs,” written in 1924-1925, tells us about this. A real masterpiece in this cycle of poems is the declaration of love to an oriental girl in the work “Shagane, you are mine, Shagane.” In this verse, Yesenin managed to subtly and unobtrusively sing about the beauty of his native land, sharing with a beautiful stranger his thoughts about his native land and the girl who is waiting for him there. The poem is read in one breath, written easily and simply, but at the same time leaves a bright aftertaste.

Another important poem in Yesenin’s love lyrics is the work “Letter to a Woman.” This work also refers to the lyrics of the poet’s last years; it shows incredible respect for women and a deep understanding of the mistakes made in his youth. In the letter, the author asks for forgiveness from the woman he once loved. A crazy and wild life became the main reason why the relationship did not work out and now the poet, from the height of his years, asks for forgiveness and regrets that he lost his beloved.

The theme of love in the lyrics of S. A. Yesenin. The work of the great Russian poet Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin is inspired by a deep love for his homeland, for the nature of his native land, which for him has always been identified with the soul of a truly Russian person.

In my opinion, each of Yesenin’s poems in one way or another glorifies the poet’s homeland; in each of his works, even dedicated to his beloved woman, the poet invariably turns his gaze to his native land.

In the poem “Shagane, you are mine, Shagane!..” (From the cycle “Persian Motifs”), the poet addresses an oriental girl named Shagane. He dreams of telling her about the beauty of his native land. And because he is “from the north, or something,” the magnificent Shiraz seems to him no better than the “Ryazan expanses.”

The lyrical hero says that his appearance can tell about the nature of his native land: “I took this hair from the rye,” “about the wavy rye under the moon / You can guess by my curls.” He misses his native place - turning to the girl, he asks:

Darling, joke, smile,

Just don’t wake up the memory in me

About wavy rye under the moon.

But the hero yearns not only for his native places:

Shagane, you are mine, Shagane.

There, in the north, there is a girl too,

She looks an awful lot like you

Maybe he's thinking about me...

In another poem related to love lyrics - “Do not wander, do not crush in the crimson bushes ...”, all the images are also associated with the faces of native nature.

Yesenin’s lyrical hero, addressing “her,” says that the love story is irrevocably over: “With a sheaf of your oatmeal hair / I dreamed of you forever.” He gives a description of his beloved:

With scarlet berry juice on the skin,

Tender, beautiful, was

You look like a pink sunset

And, like snow, radiant and light.

The lyrical hero speaks about the cooled feeling like this: “The grains of your eyes crumbled, withered, / The subtle name melted like a sound.” But memories of the past remained - “the smell of honey from innocent hands” in the folds of the shawl. The sound of “water honeycombs singing with the wind” at dawn also reminds me of my beloved.

Sometimes he hears in the whispers of the evening that his beloved was “a song and a dream.” The lyrical hero sadly repeats that there is no turning back:

Do not wander, do not crush in the crimson bushes

Swans and don't look for a trace.

With a sheaf of your oat hair

You belong to me forever.

Thus, we can conclude that there are no love lyrics in the generally accepted sense in Yesenin’s work. All feelings born in the poet’s soul are perceived and expressed through the prism of natural images. Each comparison necessarily goes back to epithets describing nature. And this, it seems to me, is the originality and special beauty of S. Yesenin’s lyrics.