Sergey Yesenin
Wake me up early tomorrow
O my patient mother!
I'll go for the road mound
Welcome dear guest.
Today I saw in Pushcha
Wide wheel tracks in the meadow.
The wind flutters under the cloud cover
His golden arc.
At dawn he will rush by tomorrow,
Bent the moon hat under a bush,
And the mare will wave playfully
Above the plain there is a red tail.
Wake me up early tomorrow
Shine a light in our upper room.
They say I'll soon be
Famous Russian poet.
I will sing to you and the guest,
Our stove, rooster and blood...
And it will spill over my songs
The milk of your red cows.
Read by Yu. Bogatyrev
ESENIN Sergei Alexandrovich (21.09/3.10.1895-28.12.1925), Russian poet. Born in the Ryazan village of Konstantinov. He began writing poetry early. He graduated from the zemstvo school and teacher's school.
In 1912 Yesenin moved to Moscow. In his early lyrics, the influence of peasant poets I. Z. Surikov, I. S. Nikitin, S. D. Drozhzhin is noticeable.
In 1914, the first publication: the poem "Birch". In the spring of 1915 he moved to Petrograd, where he met N. A. Klyuev, Z. N. Gippius, D. S. Merezhkovsky, A. A. Blok. Blok highly appreciated Yesenin’s poems: “fresh, pure, vociferous.” In 1916, the first collection of his poems, “Radunitsa,” was published.
This is followed by the books “Transfiguration” and “Dove” (1918), “Treryadnitsa” (1920), “Moscow Tavern” and “Poems” (1924), “Persian Motifs” and “About Russia and the Revolution” (1925).
Kn. The 1920s include Yesenin’s most significant works: the poems “Departing Rus'”, “Song of the Great March”, “Soviet Rus'”, “Anna Snegina”, “Black Man”; dramatic poems "Pugachev" and "Country of Scoundrels".
In 1922-23 Yesenin made a long trip to Western Europe and the USA. In 1924 - 25 he travels through Transcaucasia (collection "Persian Motifs").
In the last years of his life, Yesenin actively opposed Jewish dominance in Russia. A case is being fabricated against him and his friends on charges of anti-Semitism, which at that time was punishable by execution. Hunted down by the Jewish Bolsheviks, placed in unbearable living conditions, the Russian poet died under unclear circumstances. The official version (“suicide”) is denied by many researchers. Most likely we should talk about a secret murder on the orders of the Bolshevik authorities.
Sergei Yesenin is one of the Russian poets who sang in detail the beauty of folk nature, the countryside and everyday life. Each poem by the author has a hidden meaning and idea. Yesenin's creativity coincides with difficult changes in the country - the beginning of the Revolution and the change from monarchism to Soviet power. The poem “Wake me up early tomorrow” was created by the poet in 1917. The poet always remained a peasant in spirit. After breaking up with his family and leaving the village of Konstantinovo for the city, he yearns for his father’s home, which is often expressed in his poems.
For Yesenin, the change of power was perceived as hope for a better and brighter future. He believed that happy days would come that would give the younger generation the opportunity to express themselves, that society would accept him as a poet. The line in which the author dreams of becoming a famous Russian poet confirms this fact. But it is precisely for these words that the poet is criticized and also ridiculed by the new government and writers.
The main theme of the poem
The poem “Wake me up early tomorrow” is a belief in a happy future. Its main theme is the poet's response to the events of the revolution in Russia. The image of the revolution is considered by the author as a positive image. In the poem it is designated by the epithets “dear guest”, whom the main character is moving to meet. Soviet power is described in the text as a mare with a red tail. It was red that was the symbol of Soviet power.
Singing the guest who should arrive at dawn, the hero hopes that he will eventually become a recognized poet. In life, Yesenin believed that with the advent of Soviet times, life would become easier for the simple peasant. He thought that the villagers would be given new plots of land, that people would become financially independent. The poet was always bitter about the fate of the peasantry, because he came from a village. He wanted a better fate for his fellow countrymen and compatriots.
Structural analysis of the poem
This poem contains many epithets: “patient mother”, “red tail”, “dear guest”. The poet uses simple words that relate to life in the countryside. In this way, the poet tried to become closer to the people, to be understood by society. The meter of the verse is iambic tetrameter with cross rhyme. It is composed of five stanzas.
The text closely intertwines images of the poet’s native place and work. When creating this poem, Yesenin did not imagine that he would be criticized because of the phrase “famous Russian poet.” After unflattering comments in his direction, the poet reconsidered his views on the new government, which caused him to suffer until the end of his days. Yesenin remained, despite criticism, a famous and beloved poet to this day.
Sergey Yesenin
Wake me up early tomorrow
O my patient mother!
I'll go for the road mound
Welcome dear guest.
Today I saw in Pushcha
Wide wheel tracks in the meadow.
The wind flutters under the cloud cover
His golden arc.
At dawn he will rush by tomorrow,
Bent the moon hat under a bush,
And the mare will wave playfully
Above the plain there is a red tail.
Wake me up early tomorrow
Shine a light in our upper room.
They say I'll soon be
Famous Russian poet.
I will sing to you and the guest,
Our stove, rooster and blood...
And it will spill over my songs
The milk of your red cows.
Read by R. Kleiner
Yesenin Sergei Alexandrovich (1895-1925)
Yesenin! Golden name. Murdered youth. Genius of the Russian land! None of the Poets who came into this world had such spiritual strength, enchanting, omnipotent, soul-grabbing childish openness, moral purity, deep pain-love for the Fatherland! So many tears were shed over his poems, so many human souls sympathized and empathized with every Yesenin line, that if it were counted, Yesenin’s poetry would outweigh any and much more! But this method of assessment is not available to earthlings. Although from Parnassus one could see that the people have never loved anyone so much! With Yesenin’s poems they went into battle in the Patriotic War, for his poems they went to Solovki, his poetry excited souls like no other... Only the Lord knows about this holy love of the people for their son. Yesenin’s portrait is squeezed into wall family photo frames, placed on the shrine along with icons...
And not a single Poet in Russia has ever been exterminated or banned with such frenzy and tenacity as Yesenin! And they banned, and kept silent, and belittled, and threw mud at us - and they are still doing this. It is impossible to understand why?
Time has shown: the higher Poetry is in its secret lordship, the more embittered the envious losers are, and the more imitators there are.
Another great gift of God from Yesenin - he read his poems as uniquely as he created them. They sounded like that in his soul! All that remained was to say it. Everyone was shocked by his reading. Please note, great Poets have always been able to read their poems uniquely and by heart - Pushkin and Lermontov... Blok and Gumilyov... Yesenin and Klyuev... Tsvetaeva and Mandelstam... So, young gentlemen, a poet mumbling his lines on a piece of paper from the stage is not a Poet, but an amateur... A poet may not be able to do many things in his life, but not this!
The last poem, “Goodbye, my friend, goodbye...” is another secret of the Poet. In the same year, 1925, there are other lines: “You don’t know that life in the world is worth living!”
Yes, in the deserted city alleys, not only stray dogs, “lesser brothers,” but also big enemies listened to Yesenin’s light gait.
We must know the real truth and not forget how childishly his golden head was thrown back... And again his last wheeze is heard:
“My dears, good ones...”
The poem was created by the poet in 1917. It was Yesenin’s first response to the February revolution. The image of “dear guest” means the image of the revolution, because the poet hoped that it would bring benefit to the common people. In addition, Yesenin hoped that changes would come in his life for the better: “They say that I will soon become a famous Russian poet.”
The poem was written in a bright, joyful mood with hope for better times and favorable changes. However, the author's future aspirations were not justified.
The size of the poem is iambic tetrameter. It consists of five stanzas, the rhyme is cross. There are many epithets: patient mother, dear guest, golden arc, under the cloudy bush, famous Russian poet, red cows.
The poem contains such “village”, Yesenin’s simple words as: mare with a red tail, upper room, light up, “I will sing of you and the guest, our oven, rooster and shelter”, “...the milk of your redheads will spill on my songs cows."
In the first half of the text we are talking about the “dear guest.” Then the author tells the mother about how he will glorify her, the “guest,” and his native places.
This poem has been ridiculed and criticized many times because of the phrase "famous Russian poet". But time has put everything in its place. The names of those scoffers have long been forgotten, but the name of Sergei Yesenin still rings in every Russian soul.
Updated: 2016-03-31
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