In his work, Sergei Yesenin demonstrates a different, new attitude to color and even a different method of dyeing. In some of his poems there is not a single clear outline. The outlines of the haystacks are so unclear that they can be mistaken for the silhouettes of churches. Blurring the line, Yesenin highlights the details he needs with color: the vague yellowness of the mud, the yellow reins of the month

Yesenin often used this technique: he, like an artist, blurred the colors on the canvas, removed clear lines and allowed the colors to transform into each other. For example, in the poem “Smoke floods,” the general background is yellow (“Yellow reins / The month dropped”), which then turns into red (“Churches near the spinning wheels / Red stacks”), and the poem ends in black and dark blue tones: “The black wood grouse / Calls to the all-night vigil / The grove with blue darkness / Covers the gap.” In Yesenin’s poetry, color also has a symbolic meaning: “red horse” as a symbol of revolution or “black horse”, which always brings death.

Yesenin can also create one color from many shades:

Yellow: red puppies

Rye nook

Golden mats

Golden eyes

Song of the Dog

In the morning in a rye corner

Where the golden ragozhi are in a row,

The bitch whelped seven,

Seven red puppies.

And deaf, as if from a handout,

When they throw a stone at her to laugh,

The dog's eyes rolled

Golden stars in the snow.

Red: Crimson Bushes

pink sunset

scarlet like berries

In an effort to obtain the desired shade, she does not even neglect cockroach paint.

In a word, it was not just a matter of bright colors as such. A great artist, Yesenin turned out to be much more difficult. His discovery was that a color image, just like a figurative one, can absorb complex definition thoughts. With the help of words that match the colors, he was able to convey the subtlest emotional shades and depict the most intimate movements of the soul. His color scheme contributed to the conveyance of different moods, romantic spirituality, and added freshness to the images. Where, it seemed, the landscape is ordinary, where light and shadows do not suddenly capture the imagination, where at first glance, there are no catchy, memorable pictures in nature and much has already become familiar, the poet suddenly unexpectedly and boldly reveals new colors. Blue, blue, scarlet, green, red and gold sparkle and shimmer in Yesenin’s poems.

According to Potebnya, love for pure and bright colors is a property of a naive consciousness, unspoiled by civilization. Possessing this property, the poet Sergei Yesenin deepened color perception with the subtlest impressions of the real world.

Introduction

Main part

Sergei Yesenin – singer of Russian nature

Practical part

Study 1: What colors predominate in the poems of Sergei Yesenin?

Study 2: Which poem has the most flower names?

Study 3: What color is Rus' associated with in S. Yesenin’s poems?

Introduction

The purpose of this work- development creativity students; develop attention to the poetic word, considering the perception of S.A. Yesenin’s poems through color.

Object of study is the work of Sergei Yesenin.

Subject of research selected poems by Sergei Yesenin about Russian nature.

Relevance: in order to understand poetry, it is necessary to study linguistic artistic and visual means

Research objectives: Conduct an analysis of S. Yesenin’s poems about nature. Answer the question: “Why is S. Yesenin called the singer of nature?” What colors predominate in Yesenin’s poems? What color is Rus' associated with in the poet’s poems?

Main stages of the study:

Gather the necessary sources to complete this work.

Conduct an analysis of S. Yesenin’s poems about nature.

Analyze the research results and draw appropriate conclusions.

Illustrate the poems of S. Yesenin.

Theoretical basis of the study is a collection of poems and poems

Research work includes: introduction, main part: “Sergei Yesenin – singer of the Russian land”, research, conclusions.

Sergei Yesenin – singer of Russian nature

Sergei Yesenin was born in 1895 in the Ryazan province, in the village of Konstantinov. From childhood, the poet absorbed the spirit and beauty of his native nature. Sincere love for her, expressed in unique experiences and moods, gave his works a special, Yesenin sound, which can always be discerned in Russian lyrics. Perhaps Yesenin does not have a single poem in which he does not glorify Russia.

Yesenin loved his village, his home, his family very much. His grandfather, Fyodor Andreevich Titov, was especially close to him, who invested a lot in him. Many character traits were inherited from my grandfather. Sergei’s grandmother, Natalya Evteevna, loved him very much, who spoiled him and took care of him. The grandmother told her grandson fairy tales, spiritual poems, and sang songs. Everything that is good and good that contributed to the awakening of Yesenin’s poetic imagination, interest in folk songs, legends and fairy tales, love of nature and that awakened in the poet’s soul is all the influence of his grandparents.

Yesenin's childhood was spent among fields and steppes. He loved the forest, lakes, meadows and flowers, loved village life with its worries and fun. He especially loved haymaking:

I love above the mowing site

Listen to the hum of mosquitoes in the evening.

And how the guys bark with Talyanka,

The girls will come out to dance around the fires.

Yesenin's poetry is imbued with love for his Motherland, for his native land. That is why the poet’s poems are so close and understandable to each of us. Yesenin is a true poet of Russia, who became great by rising from the depths folk life. His homeland - the Ryazan land - nurtured and nourished him, taught him to love and understand what surrounds us all. Here, on Ryazan soil, Sergei Yesenin first saw all the beauty of Russian nature, which he sang in his poems. His poems are similar to smooth, calm folk songs. And the splash of the waves, and the silvery moon, and the rustle of the reeds, and the immense blue of the sky, and the blue surface of the lakes - all the beauty of the native land has been embodied in poetry over the years, full of love to the Russian land and its people:

About Rus' - raspberry field
And the blue that fell into the river -
I love you to the point of joy and pain
Your lake melancholy...

Yesenin is often called the singer of Russian nature. Yesenin's love for nature was born from good feeling poet to his native land, to man. Reading the poet’s poems, you are involuntarily filled with his desire to tell everyone about his love for Russia, its beauty and purity, to express his love for it in poetry.

In Yesenin’s poems, nature is in eternal motion, in development and change. She is born, grows, dies, sings and whispers, is sad and rejoices. The poet uses the experience of folk poetry. Often resorts to the technique of personification. The bird cherry is “sleeping in a white cape,” the willows are crying, the poplars are whispering, “the spruce girls are sad,” “the blizzard is crying like a gypsy violin,” “and the birches in white are crying through the forests,” “the sleepy land smiled at the sun.”

Yesenin's nature is colorful. Favorite colors are blue, white, gold and light blue, with which the poet has certain associations. These colors symbolize wide open spaces Russia: “in a blue evening, in a moonlit evening”, “blue May, glowing warmth”, “blue falling into the river”; express a feeling of love and tenderness: “there was a blue fire,” “blue jacket, blue eyes.”

Yesenin’s lines are filled not only with amazing colors, but also with extraordinary sounds: the ringing of a stream, the rustling of leaves, the whisper of grass, the sounds of a song, the sounds of silence, gusts of wind, birdsong, the splash of a river wave.

Conclusion:

1. Nature is the soul of Yesenin’s poems. Not a single poem by the poet is complete without pictures of nature.

2. The poet’s “small homeland” was an inexhaustible source inspiration:

- Picturesque nature of the Ryazan region.

A rich stock of childhood impressions.

There was an atmosphere of folk poetry.

3. Yesenin's nature is colorful. Filled with extraordinary sounds

Study 1: What colors predominate in Yesenin’s poems?

White color…

“White birch under my window...” (“Birch”)

"Like a white scarf

The pine tree is tied up.” ("Porosha")

“Like a white snowflake, I’m melting in the blue…” (“Mother walked through the forest in the Swimsuit…”)

“In the grove, the birch trees are ringing white.” (“Trinity morning, morning canon...”)

"Curly dusk behind the mountain

He waves his snow-white hand.” (“I’m here again, in my own family...”)

“Here it is, stupid happiness

With white windows to the garden! ("Here it is, stupid happiness...")

“Tender girl in white...” (“Here it is, stupid happiness...”)

“You are good, oh white expanse!” (“I’m wandering through the first snow…”)

“Everything will pass like smoke from white apple trees.” ("I do not regret, do not call, do not cry")

"I'll be back when the branches spread out

Like ours in spring white garden" ("Letter to Mother")

"Swept by a blizzard

White path...” (“Swept by a Blizzard”)

Blue…

“It’s only visible on the bumps and depressions,

How the skies turn blue all around” (“Rus”)

“I looked from the window at the blue scarf...” (“Imitation of the Song”)

“There in the fields, behind the blue thicket of the ravine...” (“In that land where the yellow nettles...”)

“Let the blue evening sometimes whisper to me...” (“Do not wander, do not crush in the crimson bushes...”)
“Spreads with a blue cassock
The night chill from the field...” (“Here it is, stupid happiness...”)
“Only blue sucks eyes...” (“Go you, Rus', my dear...”)

"With a wheel beyond the blue mountains

The sun has gone down quietly." (“The fields are compressed, the groves are bare...”)

“... And the blue that fell into the river...” (“The hewn horns began to sing...”)

“Evening with a blue candle a star

It shone over my road.” (“I’m wandering through the first snow…”)

“The blue twilight is like a flock of sheep...” (“Golden foliage began to spin...”)

“And to you in the evening blue darkness...” (“Letter to Mother”)

Gold…

"Golden stars in the snow." ("Song of the Dog")

“Ring, ring, golden Rus'...” (“Oh, I believe, I believe, there is happiness!”)

“Hello, golden calm...” (“Here it is, stupid happiness...”)

"The wind flutters under the cloudy tent

His golden arc." (“Wake me up early tomorrow…”)

"Walks in a golden row

Yours, Alexey Koltsov.” (“Oh Rus', flap your wings...”)

“Golden foliage began to swirl...” (“Golden foliage began to swirl...”)

“It will burn out with a golden flame

A candle made of flesh wax...” (“I am the last poet of the village...”)

"The withers are covered in gold

I won't be young anymore." ("I do not regret, do not call, do not cry")

“The golden grove dissuaded

Birch, cheerful language...” (“The golden grove dissuaded”)

"Golden frog moon

Spread out on calm water"(I left home…»)

And the snowflakes are burning
In golden fire. ("Birch")

Red, scarlet

“The scarlet light of dawn was woven on the lake.” (“The scarlet light of dawn was woven on the lake”)

“I pray for the red dawns...” (“I am a shepherd, my chambers...”)

“With the scarlet juice of the berries on the skin...” (“Do not wander, do not crush in the crimson bushes...”)

“Dawn with a red prayer book...” (“Oh, I believe, I believe, there is happiness!”)

“Across the pond like a red swan...” (“Here it is, stupid happiness...”)

“And the mare will wave playfully

A red tail over the plain.” (“Wake me up early tomorrow…”)

Yellow

"Knitting lace over the forest

in the yellow foam of the cloud." (“I am a shepherd, my chambers...”)

“In the land where the yellow nettle is...” (“In the land where the yellow nettle is...”)

“...And the yellow sand is not caused by the sun.” (“Spring doesn’t look like joy…”)

“The yellow tail fell like a fire in the snowstorm...” ("Fox")

“...The yellowing valley is close to my heart.” (“Golden foliage began to spin…”)

Blue…

“At the blue watering hole...” (“Spring is not like joy...”)

"Through the blue valley,

Between heifers and cows...” (“O Rus', flap your wings...”)

“On the path of the blue field...” (“I am the last poet of the village...”)

“The hemp plant dreams of all those who have passed away

With a wide moon over the blue pond" (“The golden grove dissuaded”)

“I left my home,
Blue Rus' left..." ("I left my home...")

Pink

“You look like a pink sunset...” (“Don’t wander, don’t crush in the crimson bushes...”)

"Stupid, sweet happiness,

Fresh rosy cheeks!” (“Here it is, stupid happiness...”)

“In the pinkish water on the pond...” (“Golden foliage began to swirl...”)

“As if I were in the echoing early morning

He rode on a pink horse." ("I do not regret, do not call, do not cry")

“Peace to the aspens, who, spreading their branches,

Look into the pink water." “Now we are leaving little by little...”

Black…

“They will light up like black currants,

Coal eyes in horseshoe eyebrows.” ("Rus")

“The black crows cawed

There is wide scope for terrible troubles.” ("Rus")

“The black curls were ruffled by the wind.” ("Imitation of a Song")

“Oatmeal, spilled by dawn,

A black handful will collect it.” (“I am the last poet of the village...”)

Green…

“To the freedom of the green lekh...” (“Go you, Rus', my dear...”)

“Across the green mountains are stingrays...” (“I am a shepherd, my chambers...”)

"They shine green in the evening

Under the poplar dew." (“I am a shepherd, my chambers...”)

“Green hairstyle...” (“Green hairstyle...”)

Raspberry...

“O Rus' - a crimson field...” (“The hewn horns began to sing...”)

Silver…

"Silver Road"

Where are you calling me?” (“Silver Road…”)

Grey…

"Only gray crows

They made noise in the meadow.” ("Porosha")

Conclusion:

1. 46 poems were analyzed, 34 poems from the collection “Everything seems to me like a quiet, uninhibited ringing...”
2. Yesenin's poems are dominated by white, gold, blue, and red colors.

Study 2: Which poem has the most color?

This is stupid happiness

With white windows to the garden!

Along the pond as a red swan

A quiet sunset floats.

Hello, golden calm,

With the shadow of a birch tree in the water!

A flock of jackdaws on the roof

Serves the evening star.

Somewhere beyond the garden it’s timid.

Where the viburnum blooms,

Tender girl in white

Sings a tender song.

Spreads with a blue cassock

The night chill from the field...

Stupid, sweet happiness

Fresh rosy cheeks!

Conclusion:

There are 5 colors in this poem: white, blue, gold, red, pink. White color symbolizes purity and tenderness. Pink symbolizes youth and naivety. There is a golden calm in this poem. Blue chill. Red sunset

Study 3: What color is Rus' associated with in Yesenin’s poems?

In the poem “Rus” the village is seen as blue.

The village drowned in potholes,

The huts of the forest were obscured.

Only visible on the bumps and depressions,

How blue the skies are all around.

Also in the poem “Go you, Rus', my dear...” Rus' is associated with the color blue.

Goy, Rus', my dear,

The huts are in the robes of the image...

No end in sight -

Only blue sucks his eyes.

The blue color symbolizes the wide expanses of the Motherland.

Rus' is golden in the poem “Oh, I believe, I believe, there is happiness!”

Ring, ring, golden Rus',

Worry, restless wind!

Blessed is he who celebrates with joy

Your shepherd's sadness.

Ring, ring, golden Rus'.

Blue Rus' in the poem “I left my native home...”. The blue color expresses tenderness and warmth towards the native land.

I left my home

Rus' left the blue one.

In the poem “The hewn horns began to sing…” Rus' is a crimson field and blue.

About Rus' - raspberry field

And the blue that fell into the river -

I love you to the point of joy and pain

Your lake melancholy.

Conclusion: Rus' in Yesenin's poems is symbolized with blue, light blue, and gold flowers. These colors are most often found in the poet's poems.

From this you can make next output that the poet’s favorite colors are blue, white, light blue, and gold. These colors are most often found in poetry and Rus' is associated with these colors.

List of used literature

1. Yesenin S. Confession of a hooligan: Poems, poems. – St. Petersburg: Publishing House“ABC-classics”, 2007
2. Yesenin S. Poems and poems. – M.: Astrel Publishing House LLC, 2002
3. Yesenin S. Lyrics: Poems. – L.: Det. lit., 1982
4. Prokushev Yu. Sergei Yesenin: Image. Poetry. Epoch. – M.: Sov. Russia, 1979
5. Eventov I. Sergei Yesenin. Biography of the writer. A manual for students. – L.: Education, 1978

It was not by chance that I turned to the work of Sergei Yesenin. In connection with the celebration of the 110th anniversary of his birth in 2005 great attention The public was drawn to the personality of the poet, to the story of his life and death, to his work. We were able to see on central television the multi-part feature film directed by V. Bezrukov “ESENIN”, documentaries “Yesenin’s Children”, “The Mystery of the Death of S. Yesenin”. New editions of Yesenin’s poems and books about his life have appeared in bookstores. According to librarians and vendors bookstores, books about Yesenin became very popular, interest in the poet’s work increased. Yesenin is also my favorite poet. He is an outstanding master in the use of color.

Each person perceives the world in his own way, trying to express thoughts and feelings through color perception. Is it by chance that people prefer one color over another? Is the choice of color and a person’s character, his mood, thoughts and feelings interconnected? Color painting is actively used in all genres of literature as a bright and multifunctional visual medium. An example of a color picture of the world can be considered Yesenin’s poetry. Based on this, I set myself next goal Target:

To prove that the choice of color in Yesenin’s lyrics is not accidental: it is determined by the poet’s worldview, attitude towards the Motherland and the characteristic personality traits of the poet himself.

1. study the available scientific material on the research topic;

2. identify all color terms in the poetry of Yesenin (1910 -1925);

3. carry out the classification of color field units and establish the features of their functioning;

4. establish the poet’s predominant, favorite color;

5. correlate the predominant color with the poet’s personality.

When analyzing language material we use following methods and research techniques:

1) descriptive (conducted through continuous sampling lexical units with color value);

2) method of component (static) analysis: the number of identified facts, their functional load - the number of word uses of a particular linguistic unit, the ratio of units of a certain thematic field throughout the entire volume of material, etc.

The solution to these problems should confirm the hypothesis: If Yesenin in his poems and in life gives preference to the blue color and its shades, then this can be associated with the personality of the poet himself, or, according to Marc Chagall, “there are colors that belong to certain countries and certain people "

The object of my research was the lyrics of S. Yesenin (1910 -1925).

The subject of the study is color designations in Yesenin’s poems.

The main source for collecting material were books: the book by N. I. Shubnikova-Guseva “Sergei Yesenin in poetry and life”: Poems. Which included poems on the basis of which research was conducted. Book by Bakhilina N. B. “History of color terms in the Russian language. "1975. 287p. about the meanings of colors.

This work is both theoretical and applied in nature; these studies can be used in a literature lesson when studying Yesenin’s work, in analyzing poems, for writing essays, in art and art lessons.

In my work, considering a large number of Yesenin’s poems, I try to prove in a practical way that the predominant colors in the poet’s poems are blue and its shades, gold and its shades, white, red and its shades.

Yesenin and colors.

Sergei Yesenin, the poetic heart of Russia, lived a bright life, short as a moment. Only 30 years old. He gave his readers a rich poetic heritage. Yesenin’s lines have truly magical power, they touch the soul, the voice reaches the very depths of the human heart, captivating with bright, wonderful sounds, colors, and unusual smells. In 1905, A. Blok wrote an article “Paints and Words,” where he complained that modern “adult writers” had “stupidized their visual perceptions.” “The reader’s soul involuntarily waited among abstractions, became sad in the laboratories of words.” Blok predicted the inevitability of the appearance of a poet who, “grabbing the rainbow,” would bring Russian nature into Russian poetry, “inhabited by many types of creatures,” with all its specific “distances” and “colors” - “not symbolic and not mystical, but amazing in its simplicity."

The great artist Yesenin attracted his first readers with his freshness of perception and genuine, naive bright colors. As I. Selvinsky rightly noted, “our “poetic painting” has never known such an eye.”

Yesenin's landscapes are multicolored and colorful. Nature plays and shimmers with all colors, the images are picturesque, as if painted in watercolors.

It is not for nothing that on Yesenin’s desk, as the poet’s sister said, there was always a bouquet of blue flowers or a sprig of lilac, a table lamp with a green lampshade, spring nature. Such an environment helped the artist to create and give birth to real masterpieces.

I am sure that color is a gift from nature itself. Without it, life would be monotonous, and the world would be boring and uninteresting.

Having studied the critical literature about color painting in Yesenin’s lyrics, I will try to make my observation about the use of this medium in the poet’s poems

Goal: to determine what colors the poet uses in his poems.

Equipment: Collection of poems from 1910 to 1925, 372 poems by Yesenin.

poem year quotes color

“Where the cabbage beds are” 1910 Sunrise, red waters with red water

The green udder sucks. green

“Winter Sings and Calls” 1910 Gray clouds gray-haired

“Imitation of a Song” 1910 I looked from the window at a blue scarf, blue

The black curls were ruffled by the wind like a snake. black

To tear a scarlet kiss from your scarlet lips with pain

“The scarlet color of dawn was woven on the lake” 1910 The scarlet color of dawn was woven on the lake

There is a cheerful melancholy in the red of the dawn. scarlet

“Flood with smoke” 1910 Yellow reins yellow

Redheads are strictly redheaded

Black capercaillie black

Grove of blue darkness blue

"AND. D. Rudinsky" 1911 Sun ray golden golden

Progress of the experiment:

1. The color palette of Yesenin’s lyrics is rich and bright. All the colors in it are vibrant, natural. Gold of the sun, red of dawn, black twilight of night, green of fields, white of snow and birch trunks, silver moon-colored- here is the living multicolor of Yesenin’s poems. But his favorite color is blue and its shades make up 34% of all colors.

Purpose: to determine which colors are predominant in early and late poetry. Give an analysis of the color palette early poems Yesenin until 1917 (115 poems) and later (after 1917) poems

1. B early poetry, still very calm and serene, blue and green tones predominate, interspersed with white “cherry snow”. Rus' itself, majestic and leisurely, stepped onto the pages of Yesenin’s lyrics. She is still sleeping, serene, illuminated by the golden rays of the month. The Russian land is a temple, heaven and the poet's paradise. Golden, silver, crimson ringing fills his early poems.

2. Acquaintance with the city brings other colors to Yesenin’s late poetry - gray and black, the golden color becomes dull yellow, sharp, contrasting colors burst in. The city is alien to the poet with his love for the width and spaciousness of vast fields. Serene youth was replaced by maturity, experience and the first bitter disappointments. From now on, his poems will be dominated by colors, watered with a golden rain of sun rays or autumn leaf fall. These tones symbolized maturity for the poet, which he compared to the autumn of the year.

In his later poems, Yesenin almost completely moves away from his former multicoloredness. Almost all the poems in this cycle are saturated with the quivering breath of blue.

3. Let’s compare the results obtained with research on the meaning of color

Blue and light blue are a symbol of aspiration to the sky, that is, to something unattainable. Symbol of sky, air, chastity, fidelity, spirituality, faith. Symbolizes dreamy reflections. It also means freedom, melancholy, aspiration - with it you want to be carried away into the “blue distance”, thoughts turn away from reality.

Golden - symbolized the primordial light, the divine light from which everything arises and in which everything dissolves. Symbolic meaning, as on an ancient Russian icon. Sky and heavenly light. Temple and paradise of the poet.

Red – (commonly known; cf.: beautiful-red; red-beauty). The color of love, burning, passion, courage, faith and poor people, heroism, generosity, self-sacrifice, fire. This is the color of the boundless mutual love of God and man.

White – (Indo-European; cf.: bha-“shine, sparkle”, Latvian, bals “pale”; Armenian bal “pallor”, other Indian bhalam “shine”, Greek phalos “white”). A symbol of purity, peace, nobility, perfection, innocence, holiday.

So, in Yesenin’s poetry the most common words are blue, gold, red, and white. This means that Yesenin’s poetry in color is: sky, air, freedom; divine Light; color of love, burning; symbol of purity, nobility.

Goal: Consider Yesenin’s favorite color, highlighting its shades. Identify the main images associated with this color.

Equipment: Research No. 1 “Favorite colors in Yesenin’s lyrics”

Progress of the experiment:

BLUE also symbolizes consciousness, dreamy reflections, as it looks quiet and calm. It also means freedom - light blue seems to be free from gravity, it soars, a person’s thoughts are free when contemplating this color. But it also means melancholy, longing - with it you want to be carried away into the “blue distance”, thoughts turn away from reality.

Poem year quotes color

“Imitation of a Song” 1910 I looked out of the window at a blue scarf

“Smoke flood” 1910 Grove in blue darkness blue

“Sunrise” 1911-1912 In the sky is dark blue, dark blue

The skies are already blue blue

“Play, play, little talyanochka, raspberry furs” 1912 I play talyanochka about blue eyes blue

“Swan” 1913-1915 And all around there are azure flowers

“Blacksmith” 1914 In the blue light of the day blue

1. The favorite color in Sergei Yesenin’s lyrics is blue, and its shades (blue, silver, azure, dark blue, gray, gray). This is the color of a cloudy sky, spring water, painted village shutters, forest flowers. In Yesenin's poetry, the skies and waters, the distance and eyes, cornflowers and Rus' itself are blue - “blue Rus'”. This color is so piercing and vibrant that it “sucks the eyes.” Yesenin believes that in the very name “Russia” there is “something blue” hidden. He says so Vs. Rozhdestvensky: “Russia! Which good word And “dew”, and “strength”, and “blue” something! " (see diagram No. 5)

2. Sergei Yesenin uses blue to, firstly, emphasize the immensity of Russia, comparing it with the blue sky. Sometimes blue is like a gray color, it is not bright, but dull. Blue is cold. Next to this color there is a snowstorm, a blizzard.

3. In Yesenin’s world, we highlight images associated with the epithets blue, blue, which are found both in ordinary, familiar phrases, and in original, poetically fresh ones.

Blue and cyan: sky, eyes, evening, water, flowers, river, darkness, Rus', land, hands, day, house shutters, garden, valley, light, homeland, country, fire, sea, haze, dove, horns, May . gate, hut, manger, asterisk, leaves, tongue, bell, ringing, ruffle, mouths, thicket, heights, waterfall, puddles, dust, clouds, lips, soul, heartstring, blizzards, song, windows, arable land, millstone, space , villages, bosom, candle, mountains, peace, doors of the day, firmament, crown, downpour, backwaters, month, belly, grove, cavalry, rye, steppe, thicket, field, aspen, June, straw, village, dust, smoke, fire, trembling, the light of heaven, the unspeakable - tender, coolness, years, weather, star, fog, jacket, moonlight, rustle of lilacs, pollen of May, eyes.

4. I noticed that in the poems of 1910-1913 the adjective blue (color epithet) is rare, it begins to be widely used in poetry from the second half of the 10s and then remains firmly in place until the end of Sergei Yesenin’s creative activity.

Goal: to find out how the predominance of the blue color and its shades in Yesenin’s lyrics is connected with the poet’s personality.

1. Characteristics of blue and cyan color;

2. Zodiac sign;

4. Last name;

5. Eye color.

BLUE. Since this is the color of the sky, it is usually associated with the spiritual exaltation of a person, his purity. If you like him, this also indicates melancholicity; for such a person, a sense of self-confidence and the goodwill of others are extremely important. Blue is the color of peace and highest harmony. It symbolizes inner confidence, interest in ideological issues, loyalty to traditions, dreamy reflections, as it looks quiet and calm. It also means freedom - light blue seems to be free from gravity, it floats, a person’s thoughts are free when contemplating this color. But it also means melancholy, longing - with it you want to be carried away into the “blue distance”, thoughts turn away from reality. Blue and blue tones are a symbol of the sky, ocean, vastness, stillness and cold. He is strict and mysterious. (32)

Sign Sergei Yesenin was born under the sign of Libra.

zodiac sign element: air

SCALES Color belonging to scales: dark blue, dark blue, light blue, white, sea ​​wave

Lucky colors are blue.

Stone: lapis lazuli, moonstone.

Flowers: violets, lilacs.

A distinctive feature of Libra is artistry and artistic taste. They don't like bright colors.

The character of Libra is best suited to the two seasons autumn and spring, with their uncertainty, inconstancy, and expectation of change. They value and love freedom.

Favorable conditions: you need to live in open, windy places where there is a lot of fresh air- gardens, fields.

They love the harmony of sounds, the singing of birds, and poetry.

Name - Sergei - “highly revered” (latin).

SERGEY Name color: silver-gray.

Zodiac sign named Sergei – Libra

Qualities: inner spirit, love of music, cinema, often become actors, composers, artists, scientists, writers, capable of covering the problem as a whole. Sergei's intuition is comparable to the imagination of great poets and inventors. Extreme sensitivity.

The surname In Ryazan, Yeseny, means autumn. Apparently the root of this the words are coming from "autumn".

ESENIN Yesenin. The Old Russian initial “e” was replaced by “o”; one - one; elen - deer; ezero – lake; autumn - autumn (the basis of the surname Yesenin after lexical meaning on a par with the bases of the surnames Zamyanin, Vesenin, i.e. the ancestors of their bearers were Zemyanya, Vesenya, Yesenya).

Sergei Yesenin wanted to take the pseudonym Yasenin, since he believed that his last name comes from the word clear.

Eye color “Light blue eyes” (G. F. Ustinov “My memories of Yesenin” (1926)), The radiance of the poet’s “heavenly” eyes (I. Ehrenburg). His blue eyes glowed. “Like cornflowers in the rye the eyes bloom in the face” (“Confession of a Hooligan”, 1920). Blue-eyed (S. M. Gorodetsky “About Sergei Yesenin” (1926)). Only the eyes glowed with bright azure because of their frosty eyelashes (M. P. Murashev “Sergei Yesenin”). In Yesenin’s lyrics they express the fullness of spiritual life:

“eyes bluer than day” (“Scarlet darkness in the heavenly mob”, 1915).

People with blue eyes- never doubt themselves, are persistent and impulsive, confidently move towards their intended goal and almost always achieve success. The dreaminess in them is visible.

Conclusion to study No. 4.

1. The color of the scales is dark blue, dark blue, light blue, white, sea green - corresponds to the predominant colors in Yesenin’s lyrics

2. The meaning and characteristics of the color of the name are close to the poet’s favorite color.

3. Nature gave Yesenun blue eyes

4. All characteristics of Yesenin can be correlated with his favorite color.

“My lyrics,” noted Yesenin, “are alive with one great love for the homeland. The feeling of homeland is central to my work.”

“Yesenin said that all his work is about Russia, that Russia is main topic his poems.

Without this theme I would not be a poet. My poems are national!”

It is natural that the main colors in Yesenin’s lyrics are the colors of his Motherland, the colors of the Russian flag.

The meaning of the colors of the Russian flag is intertwined with the symbolism of Yesenin’s flowers.

Conclusion

Yesenin's work is one of the brightest, deeply moving pages in the history of Russian literature. Yesenin's era has become a thing of the past, but his poetry continues to live, awakening a feeling of love for to my native land, to everything close and different. We are concerned about the sincerity and spirituality of the poet, for whom Rus' was the most precious thing on the entire planet.

I believe that the goal set at the beginning of the work has been achieved. I confirmed that the choice of color in Yesenin’s lyrics is not accidental: it is determined by the poet’s worldview, attitude towards the Motherland and the characteristic personality traits of the poet himself.

General conclusions:

Having studied the early and late lyrics of Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin, I determined the poet’s color preferences and concluded:

1. The predominant colors in Yesenin’s lyrics: blue, gold, red, white;

2. Yesenin’s favorite color is blue and its shades;

3. This color corresponds to the personality of the poet (according to the horoscope, by name, even by eye color).

4. Yesenin believed that “something blue” was hidden in the very name “Russia”. He said: Russia! What a good word: “dew”, and “strength”, and “blue” something!”

As national folk poet Sergei Yesenin absorbed the national color scheme (gold, blue, red, white) into his poetic system.

In the process of completing the work, I learned a lot of new and interesting things about Yesenin’s work, the meaning of flowers, improved my skills in composing scientific research work, and expanded my ability to work with different sources. These studies can be used in a literature lesson when studying Yesenin’s work, in the analysis of poems, for writing essays, in art classes, and the Moscow Art Contest.

The hypothesis of my work - “there are colors that belong to certain countries and certain people” is proven using the example of the creativity and personality of Sergei Yesenin, since Yesenin’s favorite color corresponds to his astrological data, name, surname and eye color, his character and, most importantly, his relation to Russia.

The great artist Yesenin attracted his first readers with his freshness of perception and genuine, naive bright colors. With all the colors, the images are picturesque, as if painted in watercolors. The blue, diffused in the poetry of Sergei Yesenin, really resembles ancient Russian fresco painting. Yesenin fell in love with this blue haze and became his leading colorful tonality.

Yesenin flooded his Ryazan landscapes with blue, as if consciously striving to ensure that his poems were recognized by this glowing mother-of-pearl, blue, and dark blue. Yesenin creates the impression of blue persistently and consistently. Yesenin absorbed into his poetic system the colorful range, beloved from time immemorial. Color
the impressions poured into his sonorous poems largely echo and repeat the colors that we find in folk embroidery, frescoes, painting, and in oral folk art. “The valleys turned blue in the transparent cold”; Summer evening blue"; “The blueness of the despised thicket”; “The blue blizzard”; “Look, you are Rus', my dear, Huts - in the vestments of the image... There is no end in sight. Only the blue sucks the eyes.” Yesenin believes that in the very name “Russia” there is something blue hidden.” He says this to Vs. Rozhdestvensky: " Russia! What a good word... And "
dew”, and “strength”, and “blue” something! “The poet considered the color blue not to be an everyday color, but rather symbolic, meaning “divinity.” The epithet blue is found both in ordinary, familiar phrases and in metaphorical ones. The most characteristic of Old Russian
literature is the use of two colors: white - to indicate good principles and motives and black, symbolizing evil. Such color symbolism was common in Ancient Rus'. Yesenin absorbed this tradition.

The most vivid color scheme is expressed in the poem “Black Man”, where everything
terrible, merciless, evil, related to the spiritual world of a person, his experiences, is personified in a black, devilish person. Yesenin rarely writes in white, but always in white. The poet loves to watch how color changes, flows, flows, moves, depending on the nature of the lighting. She uses the surface of water as a palette, where by combining reflections she can get the desired color.

In the poem “In the land where the yellow nettle” throws yellow nettles and the blue “thickness of the forest” into the lake and receives “the green of the lakes.” The colors in the poems are sometimes thick, sometimes slightly muted: “Swamp and cronye, ​​blue plateau of heaven” or “The spring dawns burn brighter than a pink shirt.”
In his work, Sergei Yesenie demonstrates a different, new attitude to color and even a different way of “dying.” In the poem “Flood with Smoke,” the first thing that catches your eye is: there is not a single clear outline.

The outlines of the haystacks are so unclear that they can be mistaken for the silhouettes of churches. Blurring the line, Yesenin highlights the details he needs with color: “vague yellowness” or “the yellow reins of the month are red, the haystacks have turned brown over the winter.” The general tone of the plan is yellow. Yesenin plays on textured shades of color. The landscape is designed in two colors: the yellow mass of the river and the blue distance of the grove. But the presence of black, thick and bright is felt. The color plot moves from light to darkness. There are many images and symbols in Yesenin's poetry. For example: swans are a symbol of beauty. Light epithets also have a symbolic meaning, for example: “The red horse is a symbol of revolution,”

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Symbolism of color in the poetry of S. Yesenin

Maria Panarina, 10th grade student

Lyceum of Azovskaya village, Krasnodar region

supervisor – Natalya Georgievna Prokhorova, literature teacher

Conditionally (in connection with the purpose of the study) we will divide the poet’s work into two periods: first pre-revolutionary (1910–1916),

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