The outstanding Russian poet Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin is the author of many poems that are included in the compulsory school curriculum today. One of the famous and often analyzed works is the text “A low house with blue shutters...”.
Creation of a poem and its theme
The poem named after the first line was written by the poet in 1924, i.e. a year before Yesenin’s tragic death. By this point, the author had long since moved away from the experiments of the 20s. in the direction of imagism and returned to traditional peasant lyrics. An example of such a text is “Low House with Blue Shutters.”
Lyrical in genre and nostalgic in meaning, the poem is based on Sergei Yesenin’s memories of his childhood in his native village of Konstantinovo. The theme of rural nature and peasant life was played out many times by the poet to convey his most intimate feelings. However, it is in the poem “Low House...” that one can feel the bright sadness and all the tenderness that Yesenin had until the end of his life for the vivid pictures of youth in his memory.
Plot and composition of the work
Yesenin exalts his small homeland from the very first lines, sadly noting that the past halcyon times are in the past, although they left a mark in the heart of the lyrical hero. In general, it is worth noting that the image of the lyrical hero here is closely connected with the poet himself, i.e. is created according to the principle of the protagonist. All the more tragic and hopeless for the reader are the poet’s sad dreams about places where he no longer has the opportunity to visit.
In the third stanza, the author brings out an idea that is important for his state of mind (and the entire subsequent text): despite the natural fear of getting lost in the wilderness and a certain constraint of feelings, the hero still experiences a special sad tenderness that rural nature evokes in his Russian soul. The poem culminates in vivid landscape paintings, in which Yesenin lovingly describes the skies, cranes over bare fields, trees and bushes.
At the denouement of the poem, the lyrical hero ironically laments that he is not able to stop loving his native land, despite, perhaps, his desire to seem courageous, bold, and daring. And it is precisely thanks to the enormous power of love that the poet’s adult days are filled with warmth and comfort, the light of all his good memories.
In the poem “Low House with Blue Shutters...” Sergei Yesenin creates for us the image of a sensual and disturbed lyrical hero who draws vitality from past thoughts and the beauties of his native land preserved in memory.
Technical analysis of the poem
The poem “Low House...” was written by the author in the size of a three-foot anapest. Each foot, with the exception of pyrrhic - combinations of unstressed syllables, thus has stress on the third syllable. The poet uses a cross type of rhyme, but departs from it in an effort to convey the climax of the poem. As a result, stanzas 5 and 6 acquired a surrounding rhyme.
Yesenin also uses different types of rhymes: in the beginning of the poem, the reader sees a combination of dactylic and masculine rhymes, then the dactylic one is replaced by a feminine one. Since the ending of the text echoes the beginning due to the bright refrain, the author returns dactylic rhyme in the finale.
Studying the poem “Low House...”, one can see the following tropes used by the author to convey nostalgic feelings and create memorable rural landscapes:
- Epithets. Poetic images become more heartbreaking and sad due to the muted color scheme and unsightly descriptions of nature: “gray chintz”, “poor skies”, “gray cranes”, “skinny distances”, “crooked broom”, “cheap chintz”.
- Metaphors. This literary trope adds elegance and picturesqueness to pictures of rural life: “the chintz of heaven,” “resonating in the twilight of the year.”
- Personifications. To make the description of rural landscapes truly alive, the poet adds humanity to the images, noting that the meadows and forests are covered with chintz, and the cranes can see and hear what is happening around them.
So, the central “figure” of the poem is the image of a pre-revolutionary village leading a measured life. Childhood admiration for the world and rural landscapes was a source of inspiration for the author, who vividly and colorfully describes the details of his native land. Nature has always been close to the touching and fragile soul of the poet, and in it he sees a reflection of his own emotions and experiences.
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I will never forget you, -
Were too recent
Sounded out in the twilight of the year.
Until today I still dream
Our field, meadows and forest,
Covered with gray chintz
These poor northern skies.
I don't know how to admire
And I wouldn’t want to disappear into the wilderness,
But I probably have it forever
Tenderness of the sad Russian soul.
I fell in love with gray cranes
With their purring into the skinny distances,
Because in the vastness of the fields
They haven't seen any nourishing bread.
We just saw birches and flowers,
Yes, broom, crooked and leafless,
Yes, the robbers heard whistles,
Which are easy to die from.
As much as I would like not to love,
I still can't learn
And under this cheap chintz
You are dear to me, my dear howl.
That's why in recent days
The years are no longer blowing young...
Low house with blue shutters
I will never forget you. Low house with blue shutters
Do not forget I "ll never -
Too were the recent
Died away in the twilight years.
Until today, I also dream
Our field, meadows and woods,
Prinakrytye greyish chintz
These poor northern skies.
Cheering since I don't know
And the gulf would not want to off the beaten path,
But perhaps forever have
Tenderness melancholy Russian soul.
I loved the gray crowned crane
With their skinny kurlykane in given
Because in the vastness of the fields
They are hearty breads have not seen.
Only saw birch yes Color,
Yes broom, curve and bezlisty,
Yes robbery heard whistles
From which it is easy to die.
As much as I would like and dislike,
I still can't learn
And by that a cheap chintz
You're sweet to me, darling howl.
Because of recent days and
I do not blow the young of the year...
Low house with blue shutters
Do not forget I "ll never .
“Low house with blue shutters...” Sergei Yesenin
Low house with blue shutters
I will never forget you, -
Were too recent
Sounded out in the twilight of the year.Until today I still dream
Our field, meadows and forest,
Covered with gray chintz
These poor northern skies.I don't know how to admire
And I wouldn’t want to disappear into the wilderness,
But I probably have it forever
Tenderness of the sad Russian soul.I fell in love with gray cranes
With their purring into the skinny distances,
Because in the vastness of the fields
They haven't seen any nourishing bread.We just saw birches and flowers,
Yes, broom, crooked and leafless,
Yes, the robbers heard whistles,
Which are easy to die from.As much as I would like not to love,
I still can't learn
And under this cheap chintz
You are dear to me, my dear howl.That's why in recent days
The years are no longer blowing young...
Low house with blue shutters
I will never forget you.
Analysis of Yesenin’s poem “Low House with Blue Shutters...”
Sergei Yesenin always remembered with special tenderness and warmth his native village of Konstantinovo, where he spent his childhood. It was there that he mentally returned to the most difficult periods of his life, drawing inspiration from the images of nature dear to his heart. The older the poet became, the more clearly he realized that he was unlikely to be able to experience such bright and joyful feelings with which almost every day of his stay in the village was filled. Therefore, he often dedicated poems to him, filled with aching sadness and admiration. In 1924, Yesenin completed work on the work “Low House with Blue Shutters...”, which is entirely based on his childhood memories. Despite the fact that after moving to Moscow, the poet periodically visits his small homeland, the image of that pre-revolutionary village with a measured life flowing is especially dear to him.
In his poem, the author admits that he still dreams of “our field, meadows and forest,” and in his mind’s eye every now and then there appears “a low house with blue shutters” and simple chintz curtains on the windows, in which Yesenin once lived truly happy. The poet emphasizes the fact that this serene life is a thing of the distant past, noting: “I don’t know how to admire, and I wouldn’t want to perish in the wilderness.” However, this does not detract from his love for his native land, which he now sees without embellishment. Indeed, for Yesenin it becomes a kind of revelation that life in the city and in the countryside is so significantly different. This contrast literally deprives the poet, who always dreamed of a better lot for the peasants, of peace of mind. However, the author sees that years pass, and the situation is only getting worse. He still watches the skinny cranes that fly south in the fall, since in their native “expanses of fields they have not seen nourishing bread.”
Yesenin admits that he is ready to give up his painful and hopeless love for his native land for the sake of his own peace of mind. However, all attempts to overcome this feeling do not give the expected result. “And under this cheap chintz you are dear to me, my dear howl,” Yesenin admits, as if ashamed of himself, so sentimental and defenseless. After all, in fact, the poet has long been living according to other laws; there is no place for pity and compassion in his soul. But, remembering his native village, Yesenin changes from the inside, bringing to the surface all his best qualities, formed under the influence of his small homeland.
Analysis of the poem by S. Yesenin Low house with blue shutters.
- The poem, written in 1924, once again returns the author to his rural childhood and youth.
I will never forget you,
Were too recent
Our field, meadows and forest,
Covered with gray chintz
But I probably have it forever
Because in the vastness of the fields
I still can't learn
And under this cheap chintz
The years are no longer blowing young...
Low house with blue shutters
I will never forget you. - Shit0
- you yourself are bitches and suckers
- Sergei Yesenin always remembered with special tenderness and warmth his native village of Konstantinovo, where he spent his childhood. It was there that he mentally returned to the most difficult periods of his life, drawing inspiration from the images of nature dear to his heart. The older the poet became, the more clearly he realized that he was unlikely to be able to experience such bright and joyful feelings with which almost every day of his stay in the village was filled. Therefore, he often dedicated poems to him, filled with aching sadness and admiration. In 1924, Yesenin completed work on the work Low House with Blue Shutters, which is entirely based on his childhood memories. Despite the fact that after moving to Moscow, the poet periodically visits his small homeland, the image of that pre-revolutionary village with a measured life flowing is especially dear to him.
In his poem, the author admits that he still dreams of our field, meadows and forest, and in his mind’s eye every now and then there appears a low house with blue shutters and simple chintz curtains on the windows, in which Yesenin was once truly happy. The poet emphasizes the fact that this serene life is a thing of the distant past, noting: I don’t know how to admire, and I wouldn’t want to perish in the wilderness. However, this does not detract from his love for his native land, which he now sees without embellishment. Indeed, for Yesenin it becomes a kind of revelation that life in the city and in the countryside is so significantly different. This contrast literally deprives the poet, who always dreamed of a better lot for the peasants, of peace of mind. However, the author sees that years pass, and the situation is only getting worse. He still watches the skinny cranes that fly south in the fall, since they have not seen nourishing bread in their native expanses of fields.
Yesenin admits that he is ready to give up his painful and hopeless love for his native land for the sake of his own peace of mind. However, all attempts to overcome this feeling do not give the expected result. And under this cheap chintz you are dear to me, my dear howl, Yesenin admits, as if ashamed of himself, so sentimental and defenseless. After all, in fact, the poet has long been living according to other laws; there is no place for pity and compassion in his soul. But, remembering his native village, Yesenin changes from the inside, bringing to the surface all his best qualities, formed under the influence of his small homeland. The main idea of the poem is already contained in its first stanza: A low house with blue shutters,
I will never forget you,
Were too recent
Sounded out in the twilight of the year. At the center of the poem is the lyrical self of the poet himself. Yesenin embodies in poetic lines a kind of confession of a person to his native home, his recognition of eternal memory and love and alluring power. The poem is imbued with deep lyricism in describing the world of the poet’s youth. His words are colored with a feeling of elegiac sadness, thereby introducing the reader into an atmosphere of underlying sadness and melancholy: Until today, I still dream
Our field, meadows and forest,
Covered with gray chintz
These poor northern skies. Despite the years that separated the poet from his bright and happy youth, he did not forget the beauty and charm of his native nature. The third stanza is the ideological culmination of the poem. It reveals the poet’s entire spiritual world, which has changed greatly and at the same time retained the same features. The years have extinguished the poet's ability to admire the surrounding reality. Now he doesn’t want to disappear into the outback of the village. However, the special tenderness of his Russian soul has not disappeared; it is precisely this that tugs at the poet’s heart at the thought of his abandoned small homeland: I don’t know how to admire
And I wouldn’t want to disappear into the wilderness,
But I probably have it forever
Tenderness of the sad Russian soul. The following lines are a picturesque, but somewhat sad picture of nature. The images evoke an elegiac mood in the poem. They will create a world of quiet sadness, based on melodic, melodious intonation. The poet recalls in faded, harsh colors the nature of the poor northern skies. But beauty for the poet is not limited to the brightness of colors. He feels spiritual beauty, a closeness with nature, which is unsightly to an outsider: I fell in love with gray cranes
With their purring into the skinny distances,
Because in the vastness of the fields
They haven't seen any nourishing bread. In these lines, we unconsciously see a parallel between the images of cranes flying away from their native fields and the poet leaving his beloved homeland. He, just like those birds, did not see satisfying bread, so he was forced to leave. All that calls the poet back is the gentle, quiet beauty of nature: We just saw birches and flowers,
Yes, broom, crooked and leafless... Yesenin’s poem is remarkable because the poet is not afraid to reveal a complex, contradictory feeling, to touch on the secret sides of his soul. On the one hand, he wants to stop loving the land of his youth, tries to learn to forget it. But all the same, the homeland remains dear to the poet and brings the sad joy of memories into the heart: As much as I would like not to love,
I still can't learn
And under this cheap chintz
You are dear to me, my dear howl. The poet's emotional appeal to his homeland becomes his frank declaration of eternal love. The final stanza of the poem echoes the words of the first. Thanks to this principle, the work has a ring composition, which is why it acquires semantic completeness, ideological completeness. Looking back into the past, the poet again speaks of a memory that years of separation cannot erase: That’s why in recent days
The years are no longer blowing young...
Low house with blue shutters
I will never forget you.
In the last lines, the poet again turns to the central image of the poem - the image of the house.- 1) Sergei Yesenin recalled with particular tenderness his native village of Konstantinovo, where he spent his childhood. Therefore, he often dedicated poems to him filled with sadness and admiration. In 1924, Yesenin completed work on the work “Low House with Blue Shutters,” which is entirely based on his childhood upbringing.
2) The author will confess in his poem. that he still dreams about our field. meadows and forest."
3) The lyrical hero represented by the author is sad and worried.
4) Yesenin will confess. that you will always love your homeland (and under this cheap chintz you howl dearly to me, my dear) - suiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
